The bodies of 87 members of the Kuki-Zo communities were laid to rest in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Wednesday, more than seven months after they died in a long-drawn ethnic conflict.
The mass burial took place at Sehken after the final tribute at Tuibong nearby, a spokesperson of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) said.
Of the bodies interred, 41 had been airlifted from two morgues in the State’s capital Imphal on December 14, he said. The other 46 bodies were brought from the Churachandpur Civil Hospital morgue.
