IMPHAL, NOV 8: People continued to block Uripok-Kangchup
road while pressing the government to trace the missing
teenagers.
No untoward incident was reported even as the road
blockade severely hit the normal movement of all kinds of
vehicles along the inter-district road.
Maibam Avinash (16) and Ningthoujam Anthony (19), both
hailing from Akham Awang Leikai, went missing from Sekmai
area Imphal West district bordering Kangpokpi district on
November 5.
After their mobile phones were recovered from a place in
Senapati district along NH-2 after crossing Kangpokpi district
from Imphal side on November 6, the police in Kangpokpi
district and Senapati district have been conducting joint
operations with the central security forces at various
suspected places.
Students of Don Bosco High School Langjing in Imphal West
district where one of the missing teenagers studies also
staged a sit-in-protest in front of their school campus to
rescue their missing colleague.
Sixteen-year-old Maibam Avinash is the student of the school
and preparing to appear for the Class-X final exam due by
early part of next year. (NNN)
