{"id":207272,"date":"2022-12-20T00:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=207272"},"modified":"2022-12-20T00:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:51:04","slug":"world-cup-celebrations-go-awry-in-manipur-woman-killed-in-stray-bullet-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/world-cup-celebrations-go-awry-in-manipur-woman-killed-in-stray-bullet-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"World cup celebrations go awry in Manipur, woman killed in stray bullet hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nImphal, Dec 19 (PTI) A 50-year-old woman was killed here after being hit by a stray bullet fired by unidentified revellers celebrating Argentina&#8217;s world cup win, police said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident happened at Singjamei Wangma Bheigapati locality in Manipur&#8217;s Imphal East district around 11.30 pm on Sunday, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family members of the deceased said sounds of loud fire crackers and gun shots reverberated as soon as frenzied celebrations started following Argentina&#8217;s victory over France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two bullet holes were found on the first floor of her residence, which is built with galvanised iron sheets, a senior police officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;While one bullet struck her back, another went through the GI sheets,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police and forensic teams have started an investigation to establish the direction from which the bullets were fired, the officer said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, her family members have said they would not perfrom the last rites unless the culprits are identified and arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal, Dec 19 (PTI) A 50-year-old woman was killed here after being hit by a stray bullet fired by unidentified revellers celebrating Argentina&#8217;s world cup win, police said on Monday. The incident happened at Singjamei Wangma Bheigapati locality in Manipur&#8217;s Imphal East district around 11.30 pm on Sunday, they said. Family members of the deceased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-north-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}