Jawan kills 6 in North-East

In one of the worst case of fratricidal killings in the paramilitary forces, a jawan of the Assam Rifles shot dead six of his colleagues, including a junior commissioned officer, at a remote motor vehicle checkpost in Manipur’s Ukhrul district late on Wednesday night.

The incident took place at Awang Kasom, about 15 km west of Chingai sub divisional headquarters, where troops of the Assam Rifles are on duty at a road checkpost.

Rifleman T.S. Tangkhul, who was probably on duty, got into a heated altercation with his JCO and shot him dead with his service rifle.

Hearing the gunshots, five other jawans rushed in and Tangkhul found himself surrounded by five of his unit colleagues who tried to disarm him.

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12 Hindi speakers killed by militants in Manipur

Non-Manipuri residents of the north eastern state of Manipur are in a state of panic after suspected militants gunned down 12 Hindi-speaking migrant labourers in separate incidents since Monday night.

In one instance, however, 10 Hindispeaking workers had a lucky escape at a village near Imphal when local residents rescued them from militants who were going to shoot them dead in broad daylight. The militants, however, managed to escape and they took with them two workers, whose bullet-ridden bodies were later recovered from the vicinity.

In another instance, the police said, more than a dozen armed militants brought a group of workers to Hangul village in Imphal West district in a van.

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