Four commandos of Manipur Police were injured in a militant atta💙ck.
The attack has taken place on Saturday night, repo❀rted HT.
The report said militants attacked the commandos inside their barracks in the border town of M🍬oreh.
It mentioned that rocket-prope🧔l🐟led grenades (RPG) were fired by the militants on security forces.
It added the attack left barracks damaged and four commandos sustained minor injuries🎉.
The attack on the commandos was reported from Moreh, hours after⛎ another unit of the Manipur Police commandos travelling o🤪n the Imphal-Moreh highway was attacked during the day.
One commando sustained splinter injuries when the convoy came un🥃der heavy fire around 3.45pm 💜on Saturday.
“The situation was under control after the afternoon incident. But around midnight, militants fired the RPG and heavy gunfire🍃 to attack the commandos sleeping inside the barrack at around midnight. Four of them sustained minor injuries. One of them may have sustained damages to his ear because of the blast of the explosives," the report quoted an official as saying.
The four c♎ommandos were rushed to the nearby𒉰 hospital of the Assam Rifles.
Following the incident top officials of the Assam Rifles have flown to Moreh, a border town near the India-Myanmar border, it sai🉐d.
The report quoting Kaikholal Haokip, spokesperson of the Kuki Inpi Tengnoupal, an umbrella group for Kuki residents of Tengℱnouplal, said that unidentified gunmen had attacked the commandos around midnight.
The nearly one-month-long peace in ethnic strife-torn Manipur was punctuated on Saturday morning when a gunfight broke out between Meitei and Kuki 👍village volunteers, in which one person diꦬed.
Over 200♛ people have been killed and thousands displaced in the ethnic violence in th🦩e state so far.
On December 4, bullet-riddled bodies of 13 men were recovered in an int🤡erior part of Tengnoupal district, hours after security forces received inputs of a gunfight having taken place.
