IMPHAL — At least three cadres were killed and two others were injured in an early-morning gunfight between rival armed groups at Taodaijang, also called Buanruang, a remote village in Manipur's Noney district, police said in their daily law-and-order update, according to the Nagaland Post. Police said the exchange of fire took place at around 1:55 a.m. on Wednesday, November 4, under the Nungba police station area, and described those involved, in their own wording, as groups of unidentified armed miscreants.

Source: Nagaland Post, November 5, 2026

Headline8, reporting from Manipur, also confirmed that three militants were killed in the Taodaijang clash in the Khoupum area of the Naga-majority district and that the bodies were recovered by local residents, with further official details awaited at the time of its report.

Source: Headline8, November 4, 2026

Local sources alleged — a claim police have not confirmed — that the fighting pitted the Zeliangrong United Front's Jenchui faction, ZUF-J, against a combined team of the rival ZUF Kamson faction, ZUF-K, and the NSCN-IM, and that it began with an alleged attack on a ZUF-J camp in forest near the village. Local reports said heavy firing, with sounds of explosions, continued until around 11:30 a.m. These attributions are allegations from local sources and the groups themselves, not a police finding.

The ZUF-J said it had lost two of its cadres in the clash and named them as Corporal Meijianthui Thaimei of Lunglei village and Lance Corporal Gainigam Kamson of Luangchum village, both in Noney district, the Nagaland Post reported. The third man killed was reported to be Aihung Khumba of Pungmon Chingchen village, described as a ZUF-K cadre. Police said security forces were deployed in the area to take necessary action and prevent further incidents.

This was a separate clash from the November 1 Noney incident, in which three Kuki men were killed in a gunfight in the same district — a story Awaaz Punjab has already reported. Wednesday's fighting, by contrast, involved rival Naga armed groups, according to local sources, in a district that has seen repeated factional violence alongside Manipur's wider ethnic tensions since 2023.

No police statement identifying the groups involved had been issued in the reports cited here, and the exact trigger for Wednesday's clash remains unconfirmed. Awaaz Punjab will update this story if Manipur Police issue a fuller statement naming those involved or revising the toll.