IMPHAL, May 3 -- After twenty-five days of mourning, family members have accepted the bodies of the two minors who were killed during the Tronglaobi bomb blast incident in Bishnupur.

This comes following the appeal by chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh to the parents of the deceased children to accept the bodies.

The two minors, a five-year-old boy and her 5 months old sister, were killed during a mortar attack on April 7, while sleeping with their mother. The incident also injured their mother. Subsequently, an irate mob stormed and vandalised a CRPF camp located at Gelmol village, Churachandpur district adjacent to Tronglaobi village, alleging that the security force failed to protect the civilians from such fatal attack. Whi...