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Security forces fired respective rounds of teardrop state shells to disperse protestors who had blocked National Highway 202 successful Manipur's Ukhrul territory connected Friday (May 29, 2026), officials said.
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People from Shangkai village, who were enforcing a shutdown successful their country to protestation the alleged holding of 14 assemblage members hostage by Naga groups, had blocked portion of the captious road from Imphal to Ukhrul territory headquarters.
At slightest 5 women sustained insignificant injuries during the incidental and were fixed archetypal assistance attraction by information forces, they said.
Protesters staged dense chromatic boulders and histrion trunks, and gathered successful the mediate of the road, disrupting the question of indispensable supplies arsenic good arsenic information forces towards the Ukhrul territory headquarters.
Kuki Inpi Manipur, the apex assemblage of the Kuki tribes successful the State, had announced an indefinite full shutdown successful each areas inhabited by the tribal assemblage to protestation the abduction of 14 individuals allegedly by Naga groups.
More than 38 radical were abducted and held hostage by equipped groups successful Kangpokpi and Senapati districts connected May 13, 2026, hours aft 3 religion leaders were killed successful an ambush successful Kangpokpi district.
Of them, 31 radical person been released, including 12 Naga women and 16 Kukis. Six Naga men, however, continued to beryllium held hostage, and their whereabouts are not yet known.
Kuki Inpi Manipur, besides claimed that 14 radical from the assemblage continued to beryllium held hostage by Naga groups.
