Protesters storm residences of 2 Manipur ministers, 3 MLAs over killing of 6 persons, curfew clamped

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Protesters storm residences of 2 Manipur ministers, 3 MLAs over killing of 6 persons, curfew clamped



Agitators in Sagolband area of Imphal West district gathered in front of the residence of BJP legislator RK Imo, who is also the son-in-law of Chief Minister N Biren Singh, and raised slogans demanding an “appropriate response from the government” over the killing of three persons and urging the authorities to “arrest the culprits within 24 hours”.Protesters, who had come to meet Keishamthong constituency’s independent legislator Sapam Nishikanta Singh at his residence at Tiddim Road, targeted the office building of a local newspaper owned by him after they were told that the legislator was not present in the state, a senior officer said.The mob destroyed some temporary structures in front of the office building, he claimed.Three bodies, suspected to be of six missing people from Jiribam district, were found near the confluence of the Jiri and Barak rivers along the Manipur-Assam border on Friday night. Later in the day unconfirmed reports said that all of the six bodies were found.The bodies of a woman and two children were found about 16 km from Borobekra in Jiribam district, close to the location where the six people went missing on Monday.



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