2 killed, 3 hurt in NSCN (IM)-MNRF clash
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 31 2013:
In an encounter which took broke out between armed cadres of two Naga groups, at least two cadres were killed and three others sustained injuries at Mayaikeithel in Horton village under Kasom Khullen sub-division of Ukhrul district on Thursday morning.
The area, however, falls within the jurisdiction of Yairipok Police Station.
The armed encounter between the NSCN (IM) and MNRF occurred at about 7.45 am today at one residential house at Mayaikeithel.
The MNRF cadres led by their chief Aleng were coming to the house for a mission when they came face to face with a group of NSCN (IM) cadres who were already there.
Instantly, the two parties started exchanging heavy firing.
In the ensuing firing exchange, one NSCN (IM) cadre identified as Hopeson was killed on the spot.
One cadre of MNRF identified as Mh Paothing sustained seriously and he later succumbed to the injuries enroute while being brought to Imphal for treatment.
Mh Paothing hailed from Chadong village and Hopeson from Chongdan village.
A source said the MNRF chief Aleng escaped unjurt during the close encounter.
Three NSCN-IM cadres also reportedly sustained injury in the armed encounter.
Earlier, report doing the round simply stated that two unidentified men shot dead a 49-year-old man and fired another bullet that scraped through the forehead of his wife while they were sitting on the verandah of their house.
According to the report given by Maiyin, the injured wife, to the Yairipok Police Station, two Tangkhul men holding pistols barged into their house in the morning and all of a sudden opened several rounds of firing at them killing her husband identified as Hopeson Tangkhul, s/o Mesatie Tangkhul , on the spot.