Many hurt in indiscriminate firing
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 19 2023:
Many Meira Paibis sustained injuries as they ran for safety when some unidentified men opened indiscriminate blank fire at Thongju Pechu Lampak, Imphal West.
People of the locality have a strong misgiving about the incident as a drone hovered around the area for a long time, not long before the indiscriminate firing.
The incident happened at around 10.30 pm yesterday.
Taking strong exception to the indiscriminate firing, local womenfolk staged a sit-in-protest today.
One of the protesters said that they were keeping vigil on the highway as usual when some men who came in a white car from the direction of Canchipur drew out guns and fired indiscriminately in the air at Pechu Lampak.
After several rounds of fire, the unidentified gunmen sped away to the North.
As the Meira Paibis ran for safety, five/six of them stumbled and suffered injuries.
The woman protester said that a drone was hovering over the area since the last couple of days and one drone was seen over the area last night too, minutes before the firing incident.
She said that they have a serious misgiving about yesterday's firing incident.
Another Meira Paibi, while condemning the firing incident in the strongest terms, urged the State Government to pull up all those people involved in the incident at the earliest.