Asem Bhakta, Special Correspondent North East
Imphal: (Waari Sinbul Network) Tragedy struck inside a relief camp in Manipur’s Bishnupur district when a 36-year-old person, displaced by the ongoing ethnic strife, was found dead last night, police said.
Identified as Angom Premkumar of Tuibong area in the neighbouring Churachandpur district, the victim was found hanging around 9.15 pm at his prefabricated relief house set up on the premises of a state-run sericulture project at Kwakta.
Premkumar’s alleged extreme step to end his life could not be established instantly, leaving a mystery to the people though the police have registered a case and begun investigation into it.
On the other hand, a team of Congress leaders headed by Girish Chodankar, AICC in-charge of Manipur, and Victor Keishing, Manipur PCC working president, visited the bereaved family at the relief camp to share the sorrow and pangs inflicted by them .
The Grand Old Party’s key functionaries also handed over certain monetary aid to the dejected ones as a token of love and humanitarian approach, said an MPCC leader.
Premkumar, who worked as a daily wage earner to eke out a living, is survived by his wife and two children, a girl and a boy, sources said.
A team of the nearby Phoubakchao Ikhai police station, on receiving the incident, rushed to the scene, registered an unnatural death case and sent the mortal remains of Premkumar to the mortuary for autopsy.
The deceased and his family left his homestead and took refuge in Bishnupur following the unfolding of the ethnic conflict on May 3 last year.
Saturday’s tragic incident came barely two months after a 28-year-old displaced person was gunned down by unknown miscreants close to his relief camp in Bishnupur district’s Thanga area.
