IMPHAL, April 22: The dead body of the 8 Manipur Rifle rifleman who was killed in an ambush carried out by suspected underground militants along the National highway number 2 near Khudengthabi Kwatha Lamkhai yesterday has been handed over to his family members after conducting a post mortem at Jawaharlal Institute of Medical Sciences.
Longjam Sachin (27), son of Brojendro of Pangalthabi succumbed to his injury at Moreh Hospital sustained during a series of bomb and gun attack when he along with others in an escort party of PWD engineers were on the road for the inspection tour of the road repairing at Kwatha yesterday morning.