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A mob looted a large cache of arms and ammunition from a police station in Manipur’s Ukhrul district soon after a clash between two Naga villages in which three people were killed and 30 others injured, officials said Thursday.The clash and the looting took place Wednesday in the Ukhrul district and among those killed included a Manipur Rifles trooper. The officials said the villagers even engaged in a gun battle over a boundary dispute.

A police official confirming the arms loot said they are yet to get the details on the missing arms and ammunition. However, local media quoting the official sources said the mob stormed the Ukhrul police station Wednesday and managed to decamp with 21 arms and a large quantity of various types of ammunition.

The looted arms include eight 9mm pistols, six INSAS rifles, three AK-47 rifles, two 9mm carbines, one each of SLR and Sten gun. The mob looted over 980 various types of ammunition along with sophisticated weapons, the media report said.

A huge contingent of security forces led by senior police officials have rushed to the areas and launched search operations to recover the looted arms and ammunition.

The Ukhrul police station is located around a kilometre away from an Assam Rifles camp. This is the first time a police station was stormed and arms and ammunition looted in a Naga-majority area.