Manipur: search operations after firing between security forces and insurgents

Security forces are conducting search operations in Sugnu-Serou area of Manipur after an exchange of fire with insurgents in the early hours of Tueaday.

According to a statement by the Indian Army, inputs indicate casualties to insurgents and the same is being verified on the ground.

It added that during a preliminary search-two AK series rifles, one 51mm mortar, two carbines, ammunition & warlike stores were recovered.

A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan was killed and two Assam Rifles personnel injured in an encounter with suspected Kuki insurgents in Manipur's Serou area early Tuesday, officials said.

The exchange of fire between the two sides took place in a school in Serou area of Sugnu in Kakching district, the officials said.

A BSF official said suspected Kuki miscreants resorted to indiscriminate and heavy firing targeted at BSF troops deployed at the Serou Practical High School around 4.15 am.

Constable Ranjit Yadav sustained a bullet injury during the gunfight and was evacuated to Kakching’s Jivan Hospital where he was declared dead, the official said.

The two injured Assam Rifles personnel have been air evacuated to Mantripukhri and search operations are in progress, the Indian Army’s SpearCorps, headquartered in Dimapur, added on Twitter.

(with inputs from PTI)