GUWAHATI: The last rites of nine Meiteis, including three women and three children killed in three different incidents in the Jiribam district of Manipur recently, were performed on Friday after the bodies were brought from Assam’s Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH). Escorted by the police, two trucks carried the bodies to Jiribam.Official sources said family members and village representatives of the deceased had gone to collect the bodies. Later, the last rites were performed in the presence of grieving family members, relatives and locals.The three women and the three children, including an eight-month-old, were reported missing after the November 11 gunfight in the Borobekra subdivision of Jiribam in which the personnel of Central Reserve Police Force and the police gunned down 10 “armed militants”. Kuki-Zo organisations claimed they were village volunteers.The bodies of the six women and children were recovered from three different places near the Assam-Manipur interstate border on three different days and taken to the SMCH for post-mortem examinations.
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