Manipuri women denounce killing of migrant worker
Imphal, June 10: A large number of women near the Manipur capital on Sunday launched a sit-in protest to condemn the killing of a migrant worker.
The protest took place at Langol Tarung, about 10 km from Imphal.
In the gun attack by a masked man on Saturday night, a construction worker, Mantu Paswn, 20, of Motihari in Bihar was killed. Another worker, Chandan Paswan, 18, was shot in the thigh.
Four of the construction workers had come to a market to buy grocery items when the masked gunman attacked them along a crowded road.
No underground organisation has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.
A woman activist, Chongnu Mante, who participated in the sit-in protest, said: "The killing of the innocent daily wage earner in this manner is highly condemnable. The group behind it should come out and claim responsibility."
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Israeli police make arrests after flares fired at prime minister's private residence
Tel Aviv (AP): Israeli police said on Sunday that they have arrested three suspects after flares were fired at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal city of Caesarea.
Authorities said the prime minister and his family were not at the residence when two flares were fired at it overnight, and there were no injuries.
The police did not provide details about the suspects, but officials pointed to domestic political critics of Netanyahu. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the incident and warned against “an escalation of the violence in the public sphere”.
Netanyahu has faced months of mass protests over his handling of the hostage crisis unleashed by Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack into Israel, which ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Critics blame Netanyahu for the security and intelligence failures that allowed the attack to happen and for not reaching a deal with Hamas to release scores of hostages still held inside Gaza.
A drone launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah group struck Netanyahu's Caesarea residence last month, also when he and his family were away.
