A police armoury was looted and a Manipur Rifles personnel was killed in two separate incidents in Manipur on Thursday, a police official said. Another attempt to loot weapons in Imphal city was thwarted by the police.
The incidents come a day ahead of a Supreme Court hearing in the matter.
The first incident took place in Bishnupur district when a mob looted automatic weapons from the second Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) at Naransena. The number of weapons looted from the armoury are not known. Since the beginning of the ethnic violence between the Kuki and Meitei community, more than 4,000 weapons and lakhs of ammunition have been looted from police stations and armouries, out of which a little over 1,600 weapons have been recovered.
