Bunkers Along National Highways Removed: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh

Meiteis account for about 53 percent of Manipur's population and live mostly in the Imphal Valley.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said on Saturday that bunkers set up along national highways by vigilante groups have been cleared and warned of stern action against these groups if they continued to use arms in the name of defending their villages.

After visiting a relief camp for pregnant women at Khuman Lampak in the state capital, Imphal, the Chief Minister told reporters that "no one can presume the districts as separate states as Manipur exists entirely as one entity." 

Biren said the perpetrators of the June 21 IED explosion have been identified, and the case has been handed over to the NIA.

Terming the incident as a cowardly act, he said NIA agents have "reached the state and have begun investigating." The explosion at Kwakta in Bishnupur district left two teenagers and a 7-year-old boy injured.