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The bodies are yet to be identified, sources at the mortuary who have seen the bodies told NDTV. The mortuary is located at Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMHC) in Assam, about 50 kilometres from Jiribam in Manipur.
Following the hostage-taking of three women and three children by suspected Kuki militants on Monday, the bodies of three women were taken to a mortuary in Silchar, Assam, on Friday, amid tensions in the Jiribam district of neighbouring Manipur.
The bodies have not yet been identified, according to mortuary sources who spoke to NDTV. About 50 kilometres from Jiribam, at Silchar Medical College and Hospital (SMHC), is the mortuary. According to sources, the bodies were taken to the mortuary at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Because of the town’s inadequate infrastructure, autopsies of bodies discovered in Jiribam are conducted at SMHC.
Three children, including a two and a half-year-old and an infant, were taken hostage on Monday. The mother of the two younger children is one of the three female hostages. They are all members of the Meitei community.
Sources claim that a group of suspected Kuki militants from Jiribam’s Bokobera neighbourhood kidnapped another group of militants while they were engaged in combat with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).
The encounter resulted in the shooting deaths of ten suspected Kuki militants.
Laisharam Herojit, a low-level worker in the state government, in an interview to NDTV on Wednesday appealed to any group that may have held his family hostage to release them safely. He claimed that a friend of his wife witnessed armed individuals removing them on a boat.
The Barak River is less than 1 km from the CRPF camp and the police station in Borobekra, Jiribam.
When shooting and arson broke out in Borobekra on Monday, Mr. Herojit told NDTV that he received a call from his wife. When he tried to call her back after the call was cut off, he discovered that the phone was turned off.
“She sobbed while on the phone. She claimed that there were numerous armed individuals all around them. I tried calling her again after the call was dropped, but the phone was turned off. Additionally, my mother-in-law had turned off her phone. A Bengali friend of my wife told us she saw them being taken away in a boat about an hour later, after we had been looking for a long time,” Mr. Herojit told NDTV.
The CRPF and police sources have refuted the Kuki tribes’ claim that the people killed in the clash were “village volunteers.”.
The security forces released images of police cars with multiple bullet holes and what they said were weapons recovered from the encounter site, including AK and INSAS assault rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher.