Overview
- Joint teams, which destroyed six illegal bunkers Wednesday, targeted sites around Litan and Mongkot Chepu and officials said firing has since dropped.
- Police widened a state sweep with 113 checkpoints, an arms haul in Kangpokpi, and the arrest of Md Shanjit Khan, and they kept armed escorts on key highways.
- Earlier violence left a Kuki woman wounded on Monday in Mongkot Chepu and two Tangkhul villagers hurt on Tuesday in Sharkaphung.
- Kuki groups say villagers were shot while farming, while the Tangkhul Naga Foothills Organisation says Kuki volunteers were digging bunkers under the Suspension of Operations truce.
- Village leaders also alleged a drone-dropped explosive and shots fired near students returning from exams, claims reported from local statements and not independently verified in a corridor scarred by February arson that burned more than 30 homes.