INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
GUWAHATI: A wounded seven-year-old boy of mixed Kuki-Meitei parentage burned to death along with his mother and another woman inside an
ambulance taking him to hospital after it was waylaid and set ablaze by a mob in the Iroisemba area of Imphal last Sunday, sources said on
Tongsing Hangsing, his Meitei mother Meena and their neighbour Lydia Lourembam were apparently being escorted from an Assam Rifles camp to
the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal by a team of Manipur Police commandos, led by an officer of the rank of SP.The escorts
and the driver allegedly fled, leaving the ambulance and the three passengers at the mercy of the mob
A report submitted to the Centre on the incident is said to have pointed to a possible leak of information to Kuki groups regarding movement
of injured belonging to the Meitei community
The report purportedly recalls how the police, under whose protection the ambulance was moving, put up a fight but were outnumbered by the
Kuki attackers.The victims were residents of Kangchup village in Kangpokpi district
They were among 30 people displaced by the ethnic feuding and sheltered in an Assam Rifles camp near their village since May 4, a day after
a bullet ricocheted to hit Tongsing in the head
He was immediately given medical assistance and his condition stabilised
It was later decided that he be sent to Leimakhong town, but police recommended going to RIMS instead
a possible leak of information to Kuki groups regarding movement of injured belonging to the Meitei community.
