Overview

• The boy was found hanging around 2 a.m. in the cycle shed of the Jiribam Higher Secondary School relief camp, where his family had been living since 2023.
• Police recovered the body, moved it to Jiribam Hospital, and sent it to Silchar Medical College in Assam for postmortem, and a suo-moto case has been registered.
• The deceased was identified in local reports as Yurembam Angamba Singh of Lamtai Khunou in Jiribam district.
• The Manipur Commission for Protection of Child Rights said this is the fourth suicide by an internally displaced minor between July and September and called for camp monitoring, counselling, and rollout of the revised state child policy.
• Officials and media accounts note multiple suicides among internally displaced persons since the 2023 ethnic violence, underscoring a deepening mental-health crisis in relief camps.