Migrant attacked again in Manipur
Imphal, June 16 : Another non-Manipuri was attacked in Imphal West district last night, as migrant labourers continued to flee the state fearing more violence. Police said an unidentified person hit Prabhu Prasad, a cobbler from Bihar, on his forehead in Lamphel. He was treated at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences. Prasad said the man hit him on the face with a stone while he was returning from work to his rented house in Lamphel, on the outskirts of Imphal town, around 7pm. “He attacked me suddenly and ran away without saying anything.” After the incident, the police brought four migrants staying in Lamphel, including the injured, to the Kalibari relief camp opened by the government for migrants here around 11pm. The other camp is at the local dharamshala. The camps were opened after the attack on six migrants at the Central Agricultural University at Eroisemba in Imphal West on June 11 night. Two gunmen had called out six labourers, all from West Bengal, from their hut on th...