Shots fired at house of Manipur college principal

College principal's house in Manipur attacked twice in a month, police investigating; no injuries reported.

The house of a college principal in ethnic violence-scarred Manipur has been attacked twice in a month.

Police said two scooter-borne masked men fired five rounds from automatic weapons at the house of Wahengbam Nimai, the principal of Kamakhya Pemton College in Bishnupur, on Tuesday (August 20, 2024) evening. No one claimed responsibility for the attack and the reason was not known.

“No one was injured in the attack by two men wearing masks, as seen from CCTV footage. We have registered a case and are probing the incident,” a local police officer said.

On July 17, miscreants lobbed a hand grenade near the gate of the principal’s residence. It failed to explode and was disposed of by a special squad. No group claimed responsibility for that attack too, although lobbing grenades has been associated with extortion by extremist outfits in the past.