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GUWAHATI
Unidentified gunmen ambushed an escorted goods conveyance successful Manipur’s Ukhrul territory connected Friday (May 29, 2026) morning, sidesplitting a motortruck operator from West Bengal and injuring a Naga constabulary constable.
A territory authoritative said the trucks and vehicles of information unit came nether onslaught betwixt Leingangching and TM Kasom connected National Highway 202 that connects Manipur’s capital, Imphal, with Ukhrul town, the office of Ukhrul district.
The country wherever the incidental happened astatine astir 11 a.m. is wrong the jurisdiction of Litan constabulary presumption and is Kuki-dominated.
The driver, killed connected the spot, was identified arsenic 65-year-old Nitish Das from Hooghly territory of West Bengal. He was transporting atom for the Food Corporation of India from Imphal to Ukhrul.
The Manipur constabulary constable, who sustained slug injuries connected 1 of his knees, was identified arsenic Disingam Maringmei, 34, from Sangaiprou successful Imphal West district.
“Personnel of the Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and the State constabulary person been escorting trucks connected the Imphal-Ukhrul highway. Shortly earlier the incident, section protestors blocked roads astatine Shangkai to forestall the question of the trucks,” the territory authoritative said.
The information unit escorting the trucks fired teardrop state shells to disperse the crowd. The trucks near for Ukrul aft the roadworthy was cleared, but came nether onslaught 6 k.m. uphill.
No radical has truthful acold claimed work for the onslaught astatine the precise spot wherever 2 Naga men, including a retired Indian Army soldier, were ambushed and killed connected April 18.
CM condemns
Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh condemned the ambush and mourned the decease of the motortruck operator from West Bengal.
“Ambushing a goods conveyance and taking the beingness of a driver, who plays a important relation successful ensuring the uninterrupted proviso of indispensable items crossed the State, is 1 of the astir cowardly acts and intends to aggravate the tense concern prevailing successful the area,” helium said.
He said that the ambush seemed to person been carried retired by vested involvement groups with the “ill motive to derail the government’s initiatives” to reconstruct bid and normalcy successful the State.
Praying for the speedy betterment of the constabulary constable, the Chief Minister said that a hunt and cordon cognition was being conducted successful adjacent areas to nab the culprits.
Kuki protestation defended
The Litan country has been volatile since February 7, erstwhile an battle lawsuit snowballed into a struggle betwixt the Kukis and Nagas. Scores of houses were torched, and astatine slightest 5 radical were killed successful intermittent incidents of unit since.
The Ukhrul territory portion of the Kuki CSO (Civil Society Organisations) Working Committee defended the roadworthy blockade astatine Shangkai. Condemning the May 13 sidesplitting of 3 religion leaders successful the adjoining Kangpokpi territory and the abduction of 14 Kuki civilians thereafter, the organisation said the protestation was a morganatic outcry for justice.
“Instead of addressing our genuine grievances, the CRPF and Rapid Action Force Personnel responded with brutal, excessive unit against unarmed civilians, particularly women. Reports from the crushed corroborate that information forces fired aggregate rounds of teardrop state straight astatine the residential area, assaulted protesters, and changeable a pistillate successful the head, who is present warring for her life. Tear state was besides fired into a location sheltering a 95-year-old woman, causing her terrible respiratory distress,” the organisation said successful a statement.
