In small town Kwakta, though located in the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district, almost 85 per cent of its estimated 13,500 voters are Muslim Meitei Pangals; around 1,500 are Meiteis; and there are just around 15 Kuki-Zomi houses in Ward 8 of the Kwakta municipal council area.
Guwahati: Six people were killed and 16 injured in heavy shelling of mortar bombs and firing between two groups in one of the worst attacks and counte.
“Suspected militants raided the Kwakta Lamkhai village and started indiscriminate firing which killed the three people on the spot. A few people were also injured in the attack,” a senior police officer who did not want to be named told ET. Additional reinforcements rushed to the areas and recovered the bodies, he said.