Manipur police commandos Sunday killed a suspected militant in an alleged encounter near Standard Robart School, Canchipur under Singjamei police station of Imphal West district.
A 9 mm pistol loaded with some live rounds and a hand grenade were recovered from the suspect, a police source said adding that the encounter occurred around 5 pm today.
The hand grenade was later detected from the body of the slain suspect when a police team from Singjamei police tried to pick up the body.
After removing the hand grenade safely by a team of the State Police Bomb Disposal Squad, the dead body has been transferred to RIMS morgue for identification, the police said.
Police source said that the suspect was killed when the police commandos who rushed to the area challenged a youth moving on an Activa Honda brand scooter in suspected manner to stop.
“The suspected militant was killed in the retaliatory action of the police commandos when he opened fired in a bid to escape, a police officer said.
With today’s killing, security forces and police commandos have so far killed at least 16 persons who the police alleged as militants and killed in encounter with them which were flatly denied by the families of the slain persons.
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