Two CRPF personnel, including a sub-inspector, were killed on Saturday, while two others were injured in a deadly attack by allegedly Kuki militants at an IRB post in Naransena in Manipur’s Bishnupur district.
Manipur police said that the personnel killed in the attack were from CRPF’s 128 Battalion deployed in Naransena area. An officer said that the militants fired indiscriminately from hilltops, targeting the camp between midnight and 2:15 am.
According to a PTI report, the deceased have been identified as CRPF sub-inspector N Sarkar and head constable Arup Saini.
The injured were inspector Jadav Das and constable Aftab Das, a senior police officer was quoted. He added that they received splinter wounds. The CRPF personnel were deployed to provide security to the IRBn camp.
A massive search was underway to find the perpetrators of the attack, police said.
