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Violence broke out in Manipur’s Bishnupur district as two children were killed in a bomb attack on their home, while two others were shot dead when a mob stormed into a CRPF camp during a protest against the blast, police said.
A group of people also torched two oil tankers and a truck, vandalised a police outpost and stopped the movement of vehicles on key roads to protest the bomb attack.
Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh chaired an all-party meeting to review the prevailing situation in the state.
It all started with suspected militants hurling a bomb at a house in Moirang Tronglaobi, killing a five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister and injuring their mother, when all of them were sleeping, police said.
Angered by the incident, around 400 people attacked a CRPF camp, prompting security forces to open fire, leaving two of them dead and about 20 others injured. The protesters were unhappy with the security forces for allegedly failing to take action against the militants.
The chief minister condemned the bomb attack and said its investigation will be handed to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The siblings were killed and their mother was seriously injured around 1 am when the bomb was hurled by suspected militants at their house, a senior officer said.
