Family of slain children in Manipur demands perpetrators be arrested and punished

Days after two children in Manipur were killed in an alleged bomb attack on the house of a Meitei family in Bishnupur’s Tronglaobi, leading to tensions rising once again in the State, the children’s grandfather on Thursday (April 9, 2026) virtually addressed a press conference, calling for the immediate arrest of the perpetrators, who he believed were “Kuki militants”.

At the press conference organised by Meitei civil society organisations in New Delhi on Thursday (April 9), Oinam Babuton, the paternal grandfather of the children who were killed in the attack, said, “There has to be an end to Meitei civilians being attacked and killed by these militants.” One of the children was five years old, and the other was his 5-month-old sister.