Manipur: Armed miscreants torch rubber farmhouse in Jiribam 

Imphal: A group of armed miscreants set a rubber farmhouse on fire a little after Sunday midnight at Samarghat village in Jiribam district of Manipur.

The farmhouse - belonging to former Hillghat gram panchayat member L Somorendra - was set on fire by an eight-member armed group at around 12.20 am, an official report said.

The group - reportedly speaking Hmar dialect – barged into the farmhouse and torched two rooms where migrant workers were staying.

Somorendra, the owner of the farmhouse, resides at the Jillghat area.

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Both the rooms were completely gutted in the inferno.

Somorendra told media persons that the group did not cause any harm to the migrant workers, however, they set their rooms on fire.

This is the second instance where armed miscreants have set houses at Samarghat village on fire since the ethnic violence erupted in the restive state on May 3, 2023.

The incident comes barely 13 hours after armed miscreants torched four houses at Jiribam district’s Juladhor Part 2 and Durgapur villages.