IMPHAL, May 14 -- Three senior leaders of the Thadou Baptist Association (TBA) were killed and four others injured on Wednesday when armed militants ambushed two vehicles on the road between Kangpokpi and Churachandpur in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, triggering shutdowns across key routes and deepening the crisis in the ethnic strife-torn state. The victims were returning to Kangpokpi from a TBA conference in Churachandpur when the attack occurred between Kotzim and Kotlen. Eight people were travelling in the two vehicles; one escaped unhurt. The dead were identified as V Sitlhou, a leader of the Thadou Baptist Association - the Thadou being a Kuki-Zo community - and former general secretary of the Manipur Baptist Convention, and two pasto...