Unidentified body fished out from river in Manipur

An unidentified body was fished out from a river on Wednesday, prompting the families whose near and dear ones went missing in the ongoing ethnic crisis to wait eagerly for its identification.

In another event one Satkhothang Kipgen of Manipur’s Kangpokpi district, previously presumed dead in the raging ethnic violence between two communities returned home alive on Tuesday.

He was found alive by a team of Manipur police along the national highway near Longjang village on Tuesday in Kangpokpi district.


Meanwhile, in the Churachandpur incident, owing to its high decomposition state of the unidentified dead body, the identity as well as the cause of death could not be established.

Soon after the body was found floating in the river around noon, a team of Churachandpur police station rushed there and retrieved it using ropes before depositing it at the mortuary of the district’s hospital there for autopsy.

An Unnatural Death (UD) case has been registered at the station under section 174 CrPC for investigation.

To date, as many as 175 people were killed, 1108 injured and 32 went missing since the unceasing conflict unfolded on May 3. Of the total number of fatalities, nine are still unidentified, official sources said.