IMPHAL, November 13: A person identified as Wahengbam Thembung, 24, son of Priyachandra of Thangmeiband Lairen Hanjaba Leikai was killed when he was assaulted by a group of people at Ragailong at around 6.30 pm today. Reports said that the deceased and a friend Angom Abungcha @ Lishnachadra from the same locality went to the house of Thembung’s girlfriend at Ragailong at 5.30 pm after she called him.
Abungcha was able to escape the attackers and reached Thangmeiband to pass on the information to family members of Thembung. After words about the killing spread in the neigbourhood, a huge collection of people from Thangmeiband marched towards Ragailong. But they were stopped by police near Hotel Classic who persuaded them to return home. A team of Imphal Police have retrieved the body from Ragailong and brought it to RIMS morgue.