Guwahati: At least 10 suspected Kuki militants were killed and two CRPF jawans were injured during a gun battle at Jakuradhor in Manipur's Jiribam district on Monday, police said.
Police said that the incident took place when a CRPF team came face to face with a group of suspected militants who had set on fire some shops belonging to the Meitei community at Jakuradho area in Jiribam.
The CRPF team, who also came under attack by the militants, retaliated, leading to the death of 10 suspected militants, police said. During the encounter two CRPF jawans also received injuries, police said adding that the search operation is still on. Police said that five civilians of the area have also remained missing and a search is also on to trace the missing civilians.
The search operation is still ongoing in the area, police said. The Cookie-Joe Council of Manipur has called a bandh from 5 am to 6 pm on Tuesday in protest against the killing.
Last Thursday night, suspected militants attacked a village in Jiribam district inhabited by the Kuki community. A woman was killed and 10 houses were set on fire in that attack when the militants burnt down at least 10 houses of the Kuki community in the village of Zairon in Jiribam.
Manipur has become a cauldron of ethnic violence since May last year. The violence between the Meitei and Kuki communities broke out on May 3 last year and over 230 people from both communities have been killed so far due to the over 17 months-long violence. The violence between the two communities has also displaced over 65,000 people from both communities and forced them to take shelter in relief camps.
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