IMPHAL, 30 UNA: Three persons including one civilian and AR jawan who were injured in an encounter with proscribe PLA were identified today but two women of the village where encounter took place is still missing said police source on Monday. The three persons were identified as L.Singh and RS. Singh of 24 AR posted at Tengnoupal was admitted at Leimakhong AR Hospital and the civilian identified as Touthang Mocha Khoibu (50) of Bijang village, Chandel District, have been admitted at RIMS.
The encounter took place yesterday at Bijang village Khoibu Centre under Tengnoupal Police Station, Chandel District Manipur.
The relative of Touthang Mocha Khoibu, said that in the village around 30 cadres of the PLA came to the village.
The same day the cadres of PLA have lunch at the community hall of the area, and suddenly an AR truck was came across by the UGs coming toward the village and sentry of the UGs open fire towards AR vehicles.
They also said that such incident is very frequent in the village, and they also condemned the incident and appeal to all the concern not to repeat in the future.
And also appeal to the state government to post a police outpost as soon as possible at the village for the safety of the villagers.
Two women of the Bejang village is still missing after the incident said a police source.
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