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Moreh: Women and children belonging to the Kuki community who were taking shelter at the KLP post of Assam Rifles in Moreh town following intensified combing operations returned to their respective houses today.
Meanwhile, armed miscreants reportedly attacked a foot patrolling team of Manipur police commandos in restive Moreh town on Sunday. No casualties were reported in the attack.
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Official sources said that two miscreants who came on a motorbike fired upon the police team on foot patrolling in the border town today around 11.30 am.
The sources said that when the police signalled to stop for checking on suspicion, the pillion rider took out a small gun and fired toward the police personnel and sped away in a bid to escape.
The police fired some rounds in the air while challenging them to stop.
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The motorbike, however, met with an accident after driving some meters and the two miscreants ran away toward the thick forest of the area and escaped, sources also said.
The police commandos recovered the abandoned motorbike and handed it over to the Moreh police station after lodging a case, the sources added.
Today’s attack was the second time armed miscreants attacked police personnel sent from Imphal as reinforcement after the killing of a senior police officer in a sniper attack by suspected militants on October 31.
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The sources said that the police commando team led by additional SP (ops) Wangkhomba Okramcha of Thoubal district was conducting foot patrolling as a part of area dominance in the restive border town where the police have been conducting joint operations with the state and the central security agencies.
With additional forces from Imphal, the police have been conducting massive combing operations in the town at the Indo-Myanmar border to maintain law and order in the restive town and to nab the culprit(s) involved in the killing of the SDPO.
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