The bodies of a woman and two children were found at the confluence of Jiri River and Barak River on the Manipur-Assam border on Friday. This is 16 km from Borobekra in Jiribam district, where six people went missing.

The three bodies are yet to be identified but they are suspected to be among the missing persons, officials told PTI on Saturday. The unidentified bodies were brought to Assam’s Silchar Medical College Hospital (SMCH) on Friday night and were kept in the hospital’s morgue for autopsy. Autopsies of the bodies found in Imphal’s Jiribam are being done at Assam’s Silchar Medical College Hospital due to lack of infrastructure facilities in the town.

Officials told PTI that Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh held a meeting with senior ministers on Friday night to discuss the situation following the news of the recovery of bodies.

Meanwhile, as the news spread across the Imphal Valley, tensions rose in all five districts with state authorities declaring holidays for schools and colleges.