3 civilans abducted at Torbung Bangla
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 11 2023:
Armed miscreants reportedly, abducted three civilians from Torbung Bangla today while eight others managed to escape.
From among the eight escapees two are injured.
While one of the injured has a sword cut, the other has bruise marks of being hit by a heavy object.
The three persons who have been abducted by the armed miscreants are Naorem Prakash alias Tomcha 1 (33), Thongam Shyam (34) both from Torbung Bangla and Leichombam Suraj alias Lulu (23) from Tera Khongsanbi in Bishnupur district.
The injured who has a sword cut, on the other hand, has been identified as Wangkhem Mohen and the other injured is Naorem Kaiku (18) both from Torbung Bangla.
Speaking to the media, Mohen said that they, in different groups, went to Torbung Bangla to take leftover food grain from the debris of their respective places at around 6.30 am today believing that the unrest had cooled down some-what.
Saying that all the persons who have been abducted and those managed to escape have been staying at relief camps and at relatives places, Mohen said that they managed to flee from the area on seeing the armed miscreants while filling up the stuff but Prakash, Shyam and Suraj got captured by the armed people suspected to be Kuki militants.
Saying that he rushed to the BSF post at Torbung Bangla and informed them about the incident, Moreh continued that a team of BSF along with him wentto the area to surround the armed miscreants and rescue the civilians.
"On reaching the area, we came to know that the three persons have been taken away by the armed people," he added.
Mohen claimed that he was attacked by a group of people coming in two vehicles (Maruti Gypsy) while fleeing from the area and he got a sword cut on the left shoulder.
Kaiku, one of the escapees, said that the incident took place while he along with two people from his locality went to take food grain and some other household items from their respective houses.
He claimed that he was also attacked by a group of people wielding heavy objects and belonging to another community.
He further claimed that he saw the armed people taking away three-four people in a four wheeler vehicle.