A woman was killed and her 12-year-old daughter was among nine injured, including two policemen, in firing by "suspected Kuki militants" in Manipur on Sunday, the state police and the Home Department said in separate statements. The Home Department said a man was also killed in the attack, taking the number of dead to two.
The attack was carried out using snipers and bombs dropped by drones, top intelligence sources told NDTV today, confirming what eyewitnesses said earlier today. The use of drones to drop bombs on a civilian area in the state hit by ethnic violence is a huge, frightening escalation, the sources said.