One policeman was killed and 4 others had been injured on Thursday when suspected militants opened hearth at them close to Tera Khongfangbi in Bishnupur district, about 50 km south of Imphal, officers stated.
The situation of one of many injured police personnel is vital, they stated.
The incident happened just a few km away from Torbung, the place the current violence within the state had first erupted.
Police have launched a combing operation to flush out the militants from the realm, the officers stated.
In the meantime, two individuals had been allegedly kidnapped by suspected militants in Toribung, a police officer stated.
“The duo had gone to fetch foodgrains from their ransacked residence once they had been kidnapped. A search operation has been launched to hint them,” he stated.
Violent clashes broke out within the northeastern state after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts on Could 3 to protest in opposition to the Meitei neighborhood’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing.
The officers added that curfew has been additional relaxed in all of the 11 districts the place it was clamped, by six hours from the sooner period of 5 hours.
The curfew timings differ in these districts.
In one other improvement, 100 vans travelling from Dimapur to Imphal, carrying important commodities, had been stopped by mobs at completely different locations in North Kangpokpi district, they stated.