3 BSF personnel injured as mob tries to ‘breach’ police HQ in Manipur
A mob targeted the police headquarters in Thoubal and when the security forces pushed them back, some people fired at them, resulting in injuries to three BSF personnel.
On Wednesday, T Ranjit Singh, the state’s Home Department Commissioner, wrote to the Home Ministry requesting “air assets” or helicopters to be placed in Imphal immediately for a minimum period of seven days citing “emergency requirements”. (File Photo/AP) Three Border Security Force (BSF) personnel were injured in Manipur on Wednesday night during mob attacks on police establishments in Thoubal district, hours after the killing of two police personnel in the border town of Moreh in the morning.
Manipur was gripped by a wave of unrest and tension on Wednesday following the killing of the two Meitei police personnel. In the evening, large numbers of women in Imphal and other parts of the valley took to the streets, protesting the killings, and demanded more state security forces in Moreh.
In Thoubal, a district in the valley, the unrest escalated into mobs targeting security establishments. In the past too, violent incidents in sites of the conflict have been followed by attempts to breach security establishments with the intent to loot arms and ammunition.
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