Seven Naga civilians died in two gun attacks in Manipur over three days. Four Tangkhul Naga civilians were killed at Pilong village in Kamjong district on September 24. At Kalenjang in Senapati district, two civilians were killed when gunmen opened fire on September 26; a third victim later died in hospital, the Naga People’s Organisation said on September 27. One other injured person remained under treatment at that point.
Police said suspected members of the Myanmar-based Kuki National Army-Burma entered Pilong, near the India–Myanmar border, and opened fire. The four people killed were identified as Phami Jajo, Ningthem Kasak, Betterson Jajo and Vareishim Jajo. KNA-B denied involvement and disputed the description of the victims as civilians, while making its own allegations about them. Those counterclaims have not been independently established and do not replace a criminal investigation.
In the Kalenjang attack, the Manipur Chief Minister’s Office initially confirmed two deaths and two injuries and described the assailants as unidentified militants. Police reached the site, but no verified motive or perpetrator had been announced. Local groups alleged that armed Kuki actors were responsible; that allegation was not independently verified. The later third death explains why early reports and the initial official statement listed two fatalities while subsequent accounts listed three.
Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh condemned the Kalenjang shooting as an attack on innocent lives. Naga civil-society organisations held shutdowns in Kamjong and Senapati and demanded an impartial, time-bound investigation. Their demands and attribution claims are political and community positions, not judicial findings or proof against an entire ethnic community.
The attacks occurred during a wider cycle of Naga–Kuki violence that has spread across Ukhrul, Kamjong, Senapati and Kangpokpi since February. A September 29 assessment based on security and community accounts put the wider toll above 50, but no consolidated official casualty list was available to verify every death. The immediate alleged perpetrators are non-state armed actors under investigation; the Manipur government and Union authorities retain responsibility for public security and any later accountability process, but this report does not assign every attack to either government or to a whole community.