Three women among six members of a family were shot dead, while two others recieved grievous injuries, in a violent clash between two groups over a land dispute in a village of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh on Friday morning.

According to reports, the families of Dheer Singh Tomar and Gajendra Singh Tomar clashed over a bitter land dispute at around 10 am in Lepa village.

They said that the two families were involved in nearly a decade-long enmity and had clashed with each other over dumping waste in 2013.

Local reports said that in 2013, two members of Dheer Singh Tomar’s family were killed while Gajendra Singh Tomar’s family had fled the village after the incident.

Reports said that two persons from their respective families, had reached a reconciliation outside a court and Gajendra Singh Tomar had returned to the village along with his family after nearly a decade where they were attacked by Dheer Singh Tomar’s family in a pre-planned assault.

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They said that Dheer Singh Tomar’s family thrashed their rivals with sticks and opened fire on them, resulting in the deaths of six members of Gajendra Tomar’s family, including the family patriarch Gajendra and his two sons.

A shocking video of the incident which is doing the rounds on the internet shows a group of people being beaten with sticks and gun-totting men firing upon the unarmed victims.

A senior police official said that two families were entrenched in an old enmity which boiled over into today’s shocking firing incident, adding that the relatives of today’s victims’ have been accused of killing the family members of the men who shot them today.

The official said that eight people involved in today’s shooting incident have been identified and have been booked for murder under relevant sections of the law.

Further investigation is ongoing, he added.

Manipur violence: Mizoram government sends charter flights to evacuate its stranded students, employees from violence-hit areas

Five Army personnel were killed while another sustained critical injuries in a blast triggered by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Friday, officials said.

According to a Jammu-based defence spokesperson, the Army had launched an anti-terror operation to flush out the culprits of the last month’s attack on an Army truck in nearby Poonch district in which five soldiers were killed, when they were hit by a “terrorists triggered explosives in retaliation.”

The spokesperson said that in the blast, two Army soldiers were killed on the spot, while four other sustained critical injuries and were evacuated to the Command Hospital in Udhampur where three of the soldiers succumbed to their injuries and another is battling for his life.

Giving details, the defence spokesman said that an anti-terror operation was launched at the Kesri Hill in Rajouri’s Kandi area, following specific intel about the movement of terrorists reportedly hiding out in a cave in the region.

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An Army official said the terrorists are believed to be involved in the attack on the Army truck on April 20 at Bhata Dhurian in Poonch district that killed five soldiers and the attackers also reportedly fled with the weapons of the slain armymen.

In a statement, an Army spokesman said: “Indian Army columns have been conducting relentless intelligence-based operations to flush out a group of terrorists involved in an ambush on an army truck in the Tota Gali area of Bhata Dhurian in the Jammu region,” adding that additional troops have been asked to move in to the site of the encounter.

The spokesman said that as per initial reports, a group of terrorists is trapped in the area a there is “”likelihood of casualties” within the terror groups’s ranks.

Security forces have stepped up anti-terror operations in the area following the April 20 attack in the border district of Poonch that resulted in the deaths of five soldiers.

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As the violence escalates in Manipur, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga On Friday said the state government is taking necessary steps to evacuate its residents stranded in violence-hit districts.

The CM Zoramthanga said efforts are on to charter flights to evacuate state residents, especially students and employees stranded in Imphal and other parts of Mizoram.

CM Zoramthanga also said he has urged the central and Manipur governments to make more efforts in order to end mob violence in the state of Mizoram. He also said that he requested the Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh as well, to ensure the safe return of the tribal people stranded in Imphal, to their native villages in Churachandpur and other districts. 

On May 4, Zoramthanga wrote a letter to Singh and discussed the situation over a phone call. He also spoke to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and urged him to send additional deployment of central armed forces to violence-hit Manipur. 

The Mizoram Home Department, in a statement, said the Mizoram government calls for peace and harmony to be restored in Manipur.

While expressing solidarity with the Zohnahthlak community, the Mizoram government appeals to all cross sections of society in Mizoram to work towards maintaining peace and to do away with any such elements that may escalate or aggravate the present situation.

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The Mizoram home department has also activated helpline numbers for state residents stranded in Manipur. People can contact the Police Headquarters (PHQ) in Aizawl, Mizoram at:

• 0389-233427/2335359 (Landline),
• 9862899962 (Whatsapp), and
• 8787784958 (Mobile).

The department also said that information is being obtained to make arrangements to evacuate people by flight from Imphal Airport to Lengpui Airport.

Violent clashes happened in several parts of Manipur post a Tribal Solidarity March that was organised by the tribal people of areas under the aegis of All Tribal Students Union Manipur (ATSUM) on Wednesday, May 3.

The members called for a 12-hour total shutdown to protest against the eviction of their tribal villages from the reserved forest and they demanded the inclusion of the majority Meiteis in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) list.

Whereas, the leaders of ATSUM alleged that the situation became violent when some other people burned the Anglo-Kuki War memorial gate in the Churachandpur district of Manipur after their solidarity march had ended peacefully on Wednesday.

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