6 SLRs, 3 AK rifles, ammunition looted from Manipur Rifles post in Thoubal

IMPHAL: Unidentified armed cadres looted several arms and a large quantity of ammunition from an outpost of the Manipur Rifles in the state's Thoubal district, officials said on Sunday.

A police official said that a local armed group came in three vehicles and looted at least six SLRs, three AK rifles, and many different types of ammunition, along with 12 magazines, from the Manipur Rifles outpost at the Kakmayai area of Thoubal on Saturday night.

The armed cadres first overpowered the Manipur Rifles personnel and looted the arms and ammunition at gunpoint.

Soon after the incident, additional security forces, led by senior police officials, rushed to the area and launched a massive combing operation to nab the armed attackers and to recover the arms and ammunition.

Various official and unofficial reports said that during the ethnic riots, which broke out in Manipur on May 3, 2023, over 6,000 different types of sophisticated arms and lakhs of diverse ammunition were looted from the police stations and police outposts by the mobs, attackers, and militants.

However, a significant number of looted arms and ammunition have been recovered so far, and searches by the central and state security forces are on to recover the remaining weapons. (IANS)

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