Manipur Police officer shot dead by suspected Kuki militants in Moreh, says state government

A Manipur Police officer was shot dead by suspected Kuki militants in the state’s Moreh town bordering Myanmar, the state government said on Tuesday.

Sub Divisional Police Officer Chingtham Anand was shot dead while he was on duty overseeing the cleaning of a school ground for the construction of a helipad, the state government said in a press release.

The bullet wound that Anand sustained suggested that he may have been shot with a large-calibre marksman or sniper rifle from a distance, an unidentified police officer in Moreh told NDTV.