GUWAHATI An organisation of Meitei Muslims, also called Pangals, has decided to accept the bodies of four people gunned down by armed extremists for the last rites after the Manipur government agreed to its demands.
The outlawed People’s Liberation Army claimed responsibility for gunning down four members of the Pangal community on January 1. The outfit said its members had fired in self-defence after the residents of Lilong Chingjao in Thoubal district attacked them for trying to take away a drug trafficker.
To avert a crisis over the refusal of the Pangals to accept the four bodies for burial, Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh held a meeting with members of the community’s Joint Action Committee (JAC) in the State’s capital Imphal on January 3.
