New Delhi: Autopsy reports on three victims—a three-year-old child and his mother and grandmother—of the horrific Jiribam, Manipur massacre have revealed the brutal nature of their deaths at the hands of suspected Kuki militants.
The reports, conducted at Silchar Medical College Hospital in Assam, detail multiple gunshot wounds and extensive cuts across the bodies. The three-year-old, Chingkheinganba Singh, suffered a bullet wound to the skull and was missing his right eye. His body, already in a state of decomposition by the time of the examination, also showed cut wounds, chest fractures, and lacerations on his forearm and elsewhere. The cause of death for the child is still pending, awaiting the results of viscera chemical analysis from the Directorate of Forensic Sciences in Guwahati.
“The report of three-year-old Chingkheinganba Singh showed that his right eye was missing and he had a bullet wound in the skull,” they said, as reported by PTI.
Similarly gruesome injuries were found on the child’s 25-year-old mother, L Heitonbi Devi. The autopsy revealed three bullet wounds in her chest and one in her buttock. Her body brought to the hospital seven days after her death, showed further signs of the brutal attack, according to the report.
The 60-year-old grandmother, Y Rani Devi, suffered five gunshot wounds-one in the skull, two in the chest, one in the abdomen, and one in the arm. Her body was discovered at least three to five days after her death. Both women’s bodies showed signs of severe lacerations. Like the child, the cause of death for Rani Devi remains undetermined pending viscera analysis.
The gruesome details from these three autopsy reports highlight the ferocity of the attack. Autopsy reports for the remaining three victims—one woman and two children—are still pending.
All six victims were members of the Meitei community. They disappeared from a relief camp in Jiribam following a November 11th gunfight between security forces and suspected Kuki-Zo militants which resulted in the deaths of 10 insurgents. Their bodies were later recovered from the Jiri and Barak rivers.
