According to police and army sources, the ambulance was transporting the injured boy, who sustained a bullet wound in his head during a shoot-out, to the hospital.
The village, which is primarily populated by Kukis, is situated in the foothills between a valley with a Meitei majority and hills with a Kuki majority.
A seven-year-old boy, his mother and a female neighbour were killed in Imphal West’s Iroisemba area on Sunday evening, while the young boy was being taken to hospital after being hit by a bullet splinter at the Assam Rifles camp where his family was staying.
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