The government of Manipur has suspended internet and mobile data services in five districts for three days amid unrest and security clampdown over the death of two children in a suspected rocket attack.
Protests have erupted in Manipur over the death of an infant and a five-year-old in a suspected rocket strike on a house in Manipur’s Bishnupur district early Tuesday.
The government has ordered a temporary suspension of internet and mobile data services in Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal, Kakching and Bishnupur districts with immediate effect in view of the prevailing law and order situation.
The injured were rushed to a hospital in Imphal. However, a five-month-old girl and a five-year-old boy succumbed to their injuries. Their mother sustained injuries in the attack.
Manipur, which has been a hotbed of ethnic violence, is tense again after the suspected bomb attack early Tuesday.
Suspected Kuki militants carried out the attack at Moirang Tronglaobi Awang Leikai at around 1.03 am on Tuesday, an earlier HT report cited officials as confirming.
The explosion occurred at the residence of a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel when the family was asleep after a projectile struck the bedroom window.
