Imphal, May 14 -- Manipur home minister Govindas Konthoujam on Thursday said that more than 38 civilians from the Tangkhul Naga and Kuki communities were still being held hostage or remained unaccounted for.

Konthoujam was at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal East, visiting those injured in two separate attacks in Kangpokpi and Noney districts that killed three church leaders from the Thadou-Kuki community and one person from the Tangkhul Chiru community on Wednesday.

Three senior leaders of the Thadou Baptist Association (TBA) were killed and four others injured on Wednesday while returning to Kangpokpi from a TBA conference in Churachandpur when armed militants ambushed two vehicles between Kotzim and Kotlen...