After Blast Kills 2 Children In Manipur, Internet Curbed & 2 Protestors Killed I ...
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[*]Two children, aged five years and five months, were killed after a projectile struck a house in Moirang Tronglaobi village in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, while their mother remains critically injured in ICU.
[*]-The attack, which occurred near the heavily guarded buffer zone separating valley and hill districts, triggered protests by locals, allegations against “Kuki militants”, and counter-denials from the Kuki-Zo Council.
[*]Following the violence and subsequent unrest, the Manipur government suspended internet and mobile data services across five districts for three days.
Fresh violence has once again torn through Manipur’s already fragile buffer zone, with two young children killed after an explosive projectile struck a civilian home in Bishnupur district’s Moirang Tronglaobi village in the early hours of Monday, triggering fresh outrage, protests and a renewed internet shutdown across five districts.
The blast, which occurred around 1.30 am, hit a residential house in Tronglaobi Awang Leikai, a vulnerable settlement lying close to the heavily guarded "buffer zone" that separates the Meitei-majority valley districts from the Kuki-Zo-dominated hill areas ofChurachandpur. According to the locals that Outlook spoke to, the explosion was powerful enough to instantly kill the two children, one aged five years and the other just five months old,while their mother sustained critical injuries and is currently admitted to the ICU at Raj Medicity hospital.
The children’s father, locals said, is posted with the Border Security Force in Bihar and was on his way back to Manipur after being informed of the attack. The family had reportedly been preparing for a small ritual and celebration for the younger child when tragedy struck.
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There is fear and anxiety among the residents for whom the conflict has now become never-ending.
Speaking from a relief camp barely four kilometres from the site of the explosion, Mairembam Ratan Singh, who has been displaced from Churachandpur since the conflict began, described the shock that swept through the camp after the blast.
“We heard the loud sound around 1.30 in the night. At first, we did not know whether it was a bomb or some kind of drill by the forces. Later, we came to know that two toddlers had died and the mother was seriously injured,” Singh told Outlook.
Still shaken after visiting the spot, Singh said the incident has left residents questioning how such an attack could take place in one of the most militarised stretches of the state.
“This is a very volatile area. It is very close to the so-called buffer zone, almost within 500 metres. There are multiple lines of defence by central forces on both sides. So how can such an explosive reach a civilian house? That is what has made people very angry,” he said.
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