Manipur: 3 bodies found days after 6 people were abducted in Jiribam

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Silchar/Imphal: The decomposed bodies of two children, including an infant, and a woman were found near the Manipur-Assam border on Friday, officials aware of the matter said, days after six members of a family were abducted by suspected militants in Jiribam.I)..

According to officers, the bodies were found near a river close to the inter-state border and roughly 15km from where the abductions took place..

On Friday, two separate protests over the killing of 10 tribal people in the Jirbam gunfight and the reimposition of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or Afspa in areas under the jurisdiction of six police stations rocked Manipur..

Hundreds of people hit the streets in the tribal-dominated Churachandpur district demanding justice for those killed in a gunfight in Jiribam on Monday, saying that the deceased were village volunteers and not militants..

In the Silchar district of neighbouring Assam, families of those killed in Mondays gunfight continued their protest outside the Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMCH), demanding that the bodies of the ten men be handed over to them..

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