Mizo medical student’s body found hanging in Manipur
Imphal: The body of a Mizo student of the Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital (RIMSH) here was found hanging in his hostel room, the police said on Friday. Friends of Benjamin Lalthlamuana (25) found his room locked from inside Wednesday night but he did not respond to their repeated calls. Policemen later broke open the door and found Muwana, a sixth semester student, hanging from the ceiling fan, the police said adding no suicide note was found. (PTI)
One non-Manipuri person shot dead
Imphal: A non-Manipuri person was shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Uripok area in Imphal West district, the police said on Thursday. Gunmen barged into the rented house of Md Maniruddin (30), who hailed from West Bengal, at around 9 PM Wednesday night and shot at him from point blank range. He was taken to the nearby Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital but he died there an hour later, the police said. No individual or group claimed responsibility for the crime. (PTI)
Lightning kills two students in Assam
Guwahati: Two minor girls were killed and four others injured in lightning in Assam’s Nagaon district on Thursday. The two victims were students of the North Ameri Orphanage in Kampur. They were identified as Pallavi Bhuyan and Niharika Minch. Four others who were injured have been admitted to a local hospital. Two of them were stated to be serious. (UNI)
243 pigs culled in Mizoram
Aizawl: At least 243 pigs have been culled in Mizoram due to recent outbreak of the dreaded swine disease, the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS), state animal husbandry and veterinary department director Dr L B Sailo on Thursday said. Sailo said that the cases of PRRS have decreased during the past one month and samples have been taken so far from 1,621 pigs even as the Centre had asked the state government to collect samples from all the pigs in Mizoram. “There are around 2.5 lakh pigs in the state out of which 75 per cent were affected by the PRRS,” Sailo said, adding that the infection rate has reduced considerably now. The PRRS was propagated by pigs imported from neighbouring Myanmar where it was prevalent, he said. Though the state government, through the district magistrates of the districts adjoining Myanmar issued prohibitory orders, smugglers continued to smuggle pigs and piglets from Myanmar through the porous 404-km-long international border with that country, he said. (PTI)
Malaria outbreak in Mizoram
Aizawl: Mizoram government sent doctors and supporting staff to south western Mizoram area in Lawngtlai district adjoining Bangladesh where malaria outbreak in an epidemic form has been reported. C. Zarzoliana, Joint Director (malaria) of the state health services department said that villages as Parva I and II, Devasora and Damdep have been affected by the disease last week. In Damdep village, 11 per cent of the villagers were having malaria while it was seven per cent in other villages and there was high incident of PF cases, Zaorzoliana said. A medical team from Aizawl, accompanied by doctors from Lawngtlai Chief Medical Officer’s office were sent to the villages where a large number of people were diagnosed and treated immediately after the outbreak of the disease, he said. The villages were extremely remote where many of the affected people could not avail medical treatment due to poverty. (PTI)
One person killed in accident
Nagaon (Assam): One person has been killed in a road accident when he was hit by a truck, police said on Thursday. According to an official, the deceased was on his bicycle when he was hit from behind by a loaded truck in the Kharam Patty area of Nagaon town on Wednesday. After the incident, locals gathered at the spot but could not catch hold of the driver who had fled from there. The police registered a case and trying to nab the driver for the accident. (PTI)