India: 80 Myanmar citizens arrested in Manipur State, India

NEW DELHI, 03 July 2022, (TON): A local online news agency “eighty Myanmar citizens were arrested in India, in Lankar town, Manipur State on 28 June, according to the Zogam Daily.”

According to reports received by Mizzima, police from the Churachandpur District of Manipur carried out house-to-house searches in Manipur's Lankar Town between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on 28 June.

They detained and arrested 80 people, all Myanmar citizens, under suspicion of being illegal immigrants.

Of these, 25 were men, 35 were women and 20 were children. Currently, it is not known where they are being held.

A Myanmar citizen who is trying to evade the police in Manipur said “I am still on the run and in hiding. We don't know the condition of the detained people. They can't be contacted, I think their phones have been confiscated.”

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