Protesters don't let army, Assam Rifles men reach affected areas

In the hours before nine people were gunned down in Imphal East's Khanellok village, a violent mob burnt as many as eight villages along the 17km route between Khamenlok and Govajang, even as a group of 600 people led by elderly women, blocked the road that leads to the area preventing the intervention of security forces in what has become a feature of the violence that has roiled the state for well over a month.

- Prawesh Lama

NEW DELHI: Police officials aware of the matter said that they would submit an incident report to the state's security adviser Kudiep Singh that the Tuesday incidents of arson, the deaths and the road blockade could all be pre-meditated because the group had blocked the road at Ch