Man displaced by Manipur clashes found hanging

Imphal: A 36-year-old man, displaced by the ongoing communal conflict in the state, died allegedly by suicide at his pre-fabricated relief house in Bishnupur district’s Kwakta area on Saturday night, police said on Sunday.
The inmate, identified as Angom Premkumar of Tuibong from the neighbouring Churachandpur district, was found hanging around 9.15 pm, sources said.
While personnel from Phoubakchao Ikhai police station rushed to the spot and registered a case of unnatural death before sending the body for autopsy, the reason behind Angom’s death could not be ascertained.
A team of Congress leaders, comprising the party’s state in-charge Girish Chodankar and Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) working president Victor Keishing, visited Angom’s family at the relief camp on Sunday and provided monetary aid to them.
The leaders also paid their condolences to the family, an MPCC functionary said.
Since the communal clashes broke out in the state on May 3 last year, the deceased and his family had left their homesteads in Churachandpur and took shelter at the relief camp in Bishnipur. Angom, who worked as a daily wager, is survived by his wife and two children, a boy and a girl.
Around 60,000 people have been displaced by the strife and they are currently taking refuge at relief camps and pre-fabricated houses, set up by the govt, across the state.