A video is doing the rounds on social media where the jawans of the Assam Rifles can be seen rescuing the Manipur Police commandos ambushed by militants on a highway near the India-Myanmar border town of Moreh.
The major fire in Police Bazar, which started at around 1.20 PM on Saturday afternoon, continues to rage on even after 8 hours. One person has died due to the suffocation and one person still remains missing.
The representatives of a Meitei group met defence minister Rajnath Singh to press for the demand for the removal of Assam Rifles from ethnic violence-hit Manipur.
The residents of Manipur's Dingpi area staged a protest over the proposed deployment of the Assam Rifles Unit under the command of a Meitei officer at Sehlon in Chandel district.
Director General of Assam Rifles, Lt. General PC Nair, said during a press conference that the situation in the northeastern state is unprecedented and nothing of this sort has been seen in the past. This press conference comes a day after a huge cache of arms, ammunition, and war-like stores was found during a search operation.
Security forces recovered arms, ammunition, and a war-like store, including a 9 mm pistol, in a search operation in Manipur's Thoubal district on August 29.