Mail News Service
\nImphal, Jan 18: A brick field keeper was bludgeoned to death by masked men last night at Pheidinga near inter-village road in Loitang Khunou under Sekmai police station of Imphal West district, police said on Wednesday.
\nThe deceased was identified as Ayekpam Nabachandra, 55, s\/o A.Iboton of Purul Likli Litanpokpi. The victim had been staying for a couple of years as a keeper at the brick field belonging to Elangbam Sunil, a resident of Keishamthong Elangbam Leikai of Imphal West.
\nLast night at about 9, some unidentified masked men barged into the house where Nabachandra was staying alone and he had a conversation with the assailants and then they started beating up Nabachandra with sticks, said Dhanmaya, a widow whose house located just next to Nabachandra\u2019s.
\nThe 47-year-old woman (Dhanmaya) who has been staying near the brick field with her three children told the media that the assailants asked Nabachandra for a dinner which he refused, telling them that the brick field owner was a new one and not the old one after which they started thrashing him. The assaulters left the spot in a car after the victim was left in a pool of blood, said Dhanmaya\u2019s daughter Maya.
\nShe tried to rush the victim to a hospital that night but to no avail, Dhanmaya regretted.
\nHowever, Nabachandra was rushed to the RIMS hospital at around 7 this morning, about 10 hours after the incident, with the help of one Mocha, another keeper of the brick field, but succumbed to his injuries on the way.
\nA case has been registered at the Sekmai police station regarding the incident.<\/p>\n\n