The troopers of 38 Assam Rifles engaged with unidentified persons at 8.30 p.m. on Friday night near the Imphal river in Kangpokpi district. One person was killed in the firefight and his body was kept in the mortuary pending official identification. One rifle and 68 rounds of live ammunition were recovered from the site. In another incident, eight youths were returning home at ga Mapal in Imphal from a community dancing held on the occasion of the Holi festival when some unidentified persons fired and wounded two people, Thokchom Jagat (28) and T. Memcha, who later succumbed to his injuries. The rest of the youths were beaten up with the gun butts. They said that the assailants had come in a car.