Three hurt in Moidangpok firing, one held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, May 22 2023:
At least three per-sons suffered bullet injuries in the firing incident which oc-curred late Sunday evening at Moidangpok village in Imphal West district while one of the perpetrators has been arrest-ed by security forces along with one shotgun.
The injured persons are identified as Thounaojam Deepak (35) of Moidangpok Awang Leikai, Khangembam Kiran (30) of Moidangpok Maning Leikai and Yengkhom Naoton (23) of Moidangpok Maning Leikai.
All of them are currently undergoing treatment at RIMS hospital.
As per information received here, some armed persons suspected to be Kuki came down from the nearby hill to Moidangpok village and fired towards the residential area at about 11pm on Sunday.
Three persons were injured in the firing.
On receiving report of the firing, a combined team of Imphal West district police, district police commando and Assam Rifles Keithelmanbi battalion rushed to the spot and controlled the mob.
The combined security team then moved towards New Kei-thelmanbi where the armed attackers had fled.
After cor-doning off New Keithelmanbi and blocking all the roads, the combined team conducted house to house search during which one Chungkhomang Kipgen was detained and an unauthorised 12 bore single barrel shotgun recovered from him with seven cartridges.