Skip to main content

Myanmar National Brought To Imphal With Bullet Injury Dies, Crowds Protest Outside Hospital

Myanmar National Brought To Imphal With Bullet Injury Dies, Crowds Protest Outside Hospital

Crowds gather outside JNIMS Hospital in Imphal on Thursday

Imphal/New Delhi:

A 23-year-old Myanmar national with a bullet injury brought to a hospital in Manipur's capital Imphal died during treatment, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS) said in a statement today.

Soon, a large crowd gathered outside the hospital when they heard a Myanmar national had been admitted.

Amid the ethnic tension between the hill-majority Kuki tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis, and the allegation by the Meiteis that infiltration by illegal immigrants from Myanmar has been rising sharply, the situation between the crowds and the police turned chaotic, and the police responded by firing a few tear gas shells.

The man identified as Khohantum, a resident of Thanan village in Myanmar near the border with India, was brought to the hospital by the 8 Assam Rifles and the police from Kamjong district in northern Manipur, eight hours after he was shot. Thanan in Myanmar is approximately 160 km from Imphal.

The crowds allegedly demanded that the Myanmar national should be taken outside the state for treatment, news agency PTI reported quoting unnamed officials.

The Kuki-Zo tribes in Manipur, with whom the Meiteis had clashed in the past few months, have familial and ethnic ties with tribes in Myanmar's Chin State and Mizoram, with the latter receiving nearly 40,000 refugees from the junta-ruled nation where its military is fighting pro-democracy insurgents.

Latest and Breaking News on NDTV

Police sources said the prevailing trust-deficit led to the crowds becoming agitated when they heard a "Myanmarese Kuki" has been brought to Imphal. The crowds left after holding talks with the police.

The hospital in the statement said the patient was "drowsy, pale and in shock following the bullet injury with stitched wound... Patient was given emergency treatment including IV fluids, oxygen."

"The patient was advised blood transfusion and transfer to surgical ICU and to manage including surgical intervention further once the patient is stable," the hospital said in the statement. The patient, however, died before starting blood transfusion at 1.30 pm on Thursday.

Hospital sources said they don't know the circumstances under which he got the fatal bullet injury.

They said the police will work with the military to get details on where he was picked up as the distance from Imphal to the border is far, and travelling on the highway is risky amid the ethnic tension.

However, the fighting between the junta and ethnic groups in Myanmar has affected many areas including villages along the border with Manipur and Mizoram, leading to a rush of refugees crossing over.

The fighting broke out at the end of October in the north of Shan state, close to the Chinese border, where three ethnic minority groups coordinated an attack against the junta.

The Arakan Army, which is part of this alliance, then launched an offensive last week in Rakhine in the west, at the same time as clashes were raging in Kayah in the east, not far from the Thai border, between anti-junta fighters and the army.

A parallel government formed by pro-democracy politicians to oppose the military, and allied with some insurgent factions, has launched a "Road to Naypyitaw" campaign which it says is aimed at taking control of the capital.

India on Tuesday asked its citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Myanmar and advised Indians living there to register with the embassy in Yangon.

Adblock test (Why?)



from NDTV News- Special https://ift.tt/brw4571 https://ift.tt/FVPbQ4e
via IFTTT

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

US Defense Chief Austin To Make 'Full Recovery' From Cancer: Doctors

Austin, a 70-year-old career soldier, initially underwent minor surgery to treat cancer on December 22. Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is likely to make a "full recovery" from prostate cancer and his prognosis is "excellent," two doctors said after he was seen at Walter Reed hospital for a follow-up appointment. Austin controversially kept US President Joe Biden in the dark about the cancer diagnosis for weeks, and did not inform either the commander-in-chief or Congress until days after he was hospitalized on January 1 for complications from his treatment. "Secretary Austin was seen today at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a scheduled post-prostatectomy surveillance appointment," the doctors said in a statement released by the Pentagon. "He continues to recover well and is expected to make a full recovery. Secretary Austin's prostate cancer was treated early and effectively, and his prognosis is excellent,...

Republic Day Updates: Macron Chief Guest As Delhi Hosts Parade Amid Dense Fog

Adblock test (Why?) from NDTV News- Special https://ift.tt/yqj8XDV https://ift.tt/zHpGab4 via IFTTT

North Korea Says It Tested New Strategic Cruise Missile

North Korea test-fired a new generation of strategic cruise missile on Wednesday. (Representational) Seoul: North Korea fired several cruise missiles towards the Yellow Sea on Wednesday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a series of tension-raising moves by the nuclear-armed state. Hours later, North Korea appeared to confirm the firing, saying it had carried out its first test of a new generation of strategic cruise missiles it is developing, the Pulhwasal-3-31. Pyongyang has accelerated weapons testing in the new year, including tests of what it called an "underwater nuclear weapon system" and a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile. "Our military detected several cruise missiles launched by North Korea towards the Yellow Sea at around 7:00 am today," the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. Unlike their ballistic counterparts, the testing of cruise missiles is not banned under current UN sanctions against Pyongyang. Cruise...