GUWAHATI: A police sub-inspector belonging to the tribal community was killed with a headshot fired by a suspected militant sniper in Churachandpur district on Wednesday afternoon. Two others sustained bullet wounds in the attack.
A security source said sub-inspector Onkhomang Haokip was on duty at Chingphei village when he was shot in his head by suspected militants around 2 am, killing him on the spot.
Forty-year-old Haokip was part of the additional forces deployed at Chingphei after heavy firing and motar shelling in Khousabung and Khorentak on August 30 and 31. Altogether eight persons were killed in the areas.
Chingphei village is located beyond the buffer zone of Haotak Keirap Khullen village (in the foothills of Imphal valley). The Army is deployed in the buffer zone.
Haokip joined Manipur Police as an assistant sub-inspector and is survived by four children and wife. He hailed from Ukhrul district.
This attack comes a day after three tribals were gunned down by unidentified men in Kangpokpi on Tuesday morning. On September 8, three others were killed at Pallel in Tengnoupal district and over 50 injured.
There are also reports of suspected militants lobbing bombs at a village in Imphal West district on Tuesday night.
Security sources said the suspected militants hurled as many as 10 bombs on Koutruk village but no one was injured.
Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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