Manipur: Bodies of two children killed in April bomb attack taken from morgue

Guwahati: The bodies of two children who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April was taken from the morgue on Saturday.

Bodies of 5 year old boy and his six months old sister were taken from the morgue at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal and taken to their residence at Tronglaobi for the last rites.

The two chidren were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi on April 7. The incident triggered widespread violent protests in five valley districts and the case was handed over to the NIA.


On Saturday, people dressed in Meitei funeral outfits lined up along the way to Trongloabi to offer floral tributes as the children were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle.

The bodies were kept in the morgue for 25 days.

On April 25, Manipur chief minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the families and parents of the two deceased children to accept the bodies.

Singh had also said that efforts were underway by agenies to find the perpetrators of the incident and were consistently in talks with the families of the deceased.