Five insurgents arrested near India-Myanmar border in Manipur

Five insurgents were arrested adjacent the India-Myanmar borderline successful Manipur's Tengnoupal district, constabulary said connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026).

The insurgents belonged to PREPAK, Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and Kangleipak Communist Party (MFL), they said.

The arrests were made connected Sunday (March 15, 2026) from a agelong betwixt Border Pillars 73 and 75 successful the Moreh constabulary presumption area, they added.

In a abstracted operation, information forces recovered a cache of explosives and tiny arms from the Boljang Hill Range of the district.

The seized items included 8 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a pistol, 1 pistol magazine, an improvised mortar, 2 vigor sets and 9 unrecorded rounds of antithetic calibres, constabulary said.

The recovered IEDs were destroyed astatine the tract successful accordance with information protocols and modular operating procedures, they said.