Amid Fresh Manipur Violence, Centre Sends Over 900 More Security Personnel
NDTV
A senior police officer said the Home Ministry has sent 10 more companies - or some 900 personnel - of the paramilitary forces CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB to Manipur
The centre has sent over 900 more security personnel to ethnic violence-hit Manipur amid rising tensions, three months after clashes broke out between the Kuki-Zo-Chin tribes and the Meiteis.
A senior police officer said the Home Ministry has sent 10 more companies - or some 900 personnel - of the paramilitary forces CRPF, BSF, ITBP and SSB to Manipur. They arrived in the state capital Imphal on Saturday night. They are being deployed in several districts of the northeast state.
After ethnic violence broke out on May 3, the Defence Ministry and the Home Ministry deployed over 40,000 personnel of the army, the paramilitary Assam Rifles, and various Central Armed Police Force (CAPF).
