We denounce the CRPF’s actions, and their discriminatory behaviour against Mizo tribes deeply grieves us,’ said Mizoram’s Opposition party.

Police say they recovered several weapons and that 3 CRPF men were injured in the incident. Kuki groups say the men were not militants, but 'village defence volunteers'.

Suspected Kuki militants burnt to death two Meitei people in Jiribam region of Manipur, media reports said. The two dead people are aged 76 and 54. Kuki militants also abducted three women aged 60, 31, and 25 and three children aged eight, two and a half years, and an eight-month-old, reported UNI news agency.