Imphal, May 17: On Wednesday, a Assam Rifles jawan, Alok Rao, succumbed to his injuries at Command Hospital in Kolkata. He was injured in an attack by militants in ethnic strife-hit Manipur’s Senapati district on May 10.

According to reports, militants had fired during an Army-Assam Rifles area domination patrol at Dolaithabi, leaving Rifleman Rao of 18 Assam Rifles injured. After the security personnel retaliated, the extremists managed to escape.

He was evacuated to Military Hospital in Manipur by helicopter and then to Command Hospital in Kolkata.

Rao is the first paramilitary personnel to be martyred after the Army and Assam Rifles were deployed in Manipur, where widespread ethnic violence broke out on May 3, claiming the lives of 73 people and injuring 250, and resulted in destruction of government and private properties.