Police pick up roaming non-local vendors
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 03 2010:
A non-local was shot dead by suspected militants last midnight on Keikhu road, Kongba Laishram Leikai under Porompat police station in Imphal East district, police said.
The dead body of the non-local was found by the residents of the area today morning after they could hear gun firing sounds last night nearby the spot.
Even though they heard the gun firing none enquire what had happed at the spot last night, locals said.
With a bullet hit mark at left cheek, the dead body was found lying on the roadside of the Keikhu road in morning.
The dead body of the non-local has been retrieved from the spot by the police and transferred at RIMS morgue for official identification.
After the shooting to dead incident, police has beefed up security of the non-locals and started collecting non-locals residing at the rented houses in the outskirt of the Imphal Municipality areas and kept at the relief camps opened by the government.
At many as 39 non-locals collected from various places in Imphal east and west have been given shelter at the relief camp opened at Dharmasala.
In Bishnupur district also security patrolling in Bishnupur market area where non-locals are concentrated started, reports said.