Correspondent
IMPHAL, JUL 5: Two persons – a woman and an eight-year-old child – were injured after armed miscreants fired at a Kuki inhabited village in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district on Sunday evening.
Reliable sources said that the armed miscreants opened fire at Thingkhongjang village under K Geljang sub-division of Kangpokpi district in the evening, around 5 pm.
Two villagers were injured in the firing, while a house was burnt.
The injured woman was identified as Nengneichong Kipgen (56) and the eight-year-old child as Lamneingah Kipgen.
With bullet injuries on their legs and thigh, they were rushed to an Army hospital nearby, the source said.
Meanwhile, Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) while condemning the latest attack on a Kuki village in the ongoing Naga-Kuki conflict blamed cadres of “NSCN-Muivah and its proxy faction, ZUF-Kamson” behind the attack.
“The attack was perpetrated by armed cadres of the NSCN-Muivah and its proxy faction, ZUF-Kamson,” the KIM said, in a statement condemning the latest attack on Kuki village.
The KIM alleged that several civilian homes were deliberately set ablaze, while indiscriminate firing left an innocent woman and a young child seriously injured.
The deliberate targeting of an unarmed civilian settlement is nothing less than an act of terror against innocent people and represents a grave assault on human dignity and the rule of law, it added.