Manipur Unrest: More arms looted. Are authorities turning a blind eye?
First Published: 6th August, 2023 12:15 IST
After looting two armouries of the India Reserve Battalion in the Manipur Valley on Friday and decamping with more than 300 sophisticated weapons, an aggressive mob in Imphal tried to
Top security officials said the mob did manage to snatch a few weapons but the commandos opened fire and managed to recover the weapons. Details are sketchy as of now but sources said there was a chaos in the area after the mob action and a woman was injured in the melee. Questions are increasingly being asked now as to whether these looting of weapons were audacious acts by the mob or whether they could get away with their weapons loot because the owners of these weapons actually decided to look the other way.
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