{"id":278350,"date":"2026-02-20T00:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=278350"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:06:02","slug":"shots-fired-targeting-editor-of-manipur-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/shots-fired-targeting-editor-of-manipur-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired targeting editor of Manipur newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IMPHAL, 19 Feb:<\/strong> Gunshots were allegedly fired targeting the editor of a local newspaper in Manipur&#8217;s Imphal East district, police said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Armed men intercepted Khoirom Loyalakpa&#8217;s car near the Hatta cemetery at around 10 pm on Wednesday, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two rounds were fired at his vehicle, which shattered the rear glass. Following this, the attackers physically assaulted him, they added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Loyalakpa was taken to a hospital with a bloody nose and discharged after primary treatment, police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case has been registered, and an investigation is underway to ascertain the exact cause of the attack, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No arrests have been made so far, police said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, 19 Feb: Gunshots were allegedly fired targeting the editor of a local newspaper in Manipur&#8217;s Imphal East district, police said on Thursday. Armed men intercepted Khoirom Loyalakpa&#8217;s car near the Hatta cemetery at around 10 pm on Wednesday, they said. Two rounds were fired at his vehicle, which shattered the rear glass. Following this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278350","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=278350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278360,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278350\/revisions\/278360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}