Mob asks CRPF soldiers to get down from bus, sets it on fire in Manipur
Guwahati: In yet another retaliatory incident of violence, a mob asked soldiers of a Central paramilitary force to get down from a bus in which they were travelling and set the vehicle on fire in Manipur’s hill district Kangpokpi on Monday night.
Saying a fire truck immediately doused the blaze, security sources said no one was injured. Noting that the incident took place at about 9 pm, the sources said a case has been registered against unknown people with the police station in Kangpokpi, 45 km from Imphal.
The police questioned some suspects in the Kuki-dominated district. The bus carrying CRPF jawans was on hire and was registered in the name of an individual from the Valley-dominant Meitei community. Security sources said the mob's action was in retaliation over the burning of two trucks in Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district recently.The trucks were carrying construction material to build a bridge in Churachandpur, another hill district.
The bus was taking the CRPF personnel to the Kangpokpi district commissioner’s office, when the mob stopped them.
In a similar incident on Monday, at least 60 trucks carrying fuel, medicine, baby food and other essentials were stranded for a day on National Highway 37 that connects Imphal with Cachar in Assam, after protesters from Kuki tribes blocked a bridge in Jiribam.
