Family accepts bodies of minors after 25 days
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.
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. While controlling the agitating mob three youths were killed in a CRPF firing.
The bodies of the minors that have been lying in Regional Institution of Medical Science (RIMS), Imphal, were handed over to the family members at around 11 am on Saturday, officials said.
Large number of people marched a procession from RIMS hospital to their birthplace Tronglaobi, Bishnupur. Later, after perform- ing a funeral, the bodies were buried at Lamtha- bung ground of Phouga- xt to where the three youths were buried who were killed during CRPF firing incident.
Meanwhile, the government assured a job in Indian Reserved Battalion (IRB) or Manipur Rifles (MR) with equivalent rank for the father of the minors, who is cur- rently serving in Border Security Force (BSF), and mother who is working as a nurse at All India Inst- itute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Guwahati, will be provided an equivalent service in Manipur.
Earlier, This comes following the appeal by chief min- ister Yumnam Khemchand Singh to the parents of the deceased children to accept the bodies....
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