Shafaqna Pakistan: At least four people were killed on Tuesday in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, officials reported, with two deaths resulting from police gunfire, ending months of relative calm.
Two children from the predominantly Hindu Meitei community died after a bomb exploded inside a house in the Meitei-majority Bishnupur district, according to officials and the chief minister’s office.
Later, police opened fire to disperse a crowd that had stormed a security forces camp, killing two more individuals, the state’s interior minister, Govindas Konthoujam, confirmed.
The clashes in Manipur originally erupted in May 2023 between the dominant Hindu Meitei community and the mainly Christian Kuki tribes over economic benefits and job quotas, resulting in around 260 deaths and displacing more than 60,000 people.
The children killed in the latest unrest belonged to the Meitei community, whose members alleged the attack was carried out by Kuki militants. Kuki groups denied the accusations.
The state’s Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh said the perpetrators were yet to be identified and that the bomb attack was the “handiwork of individuals or groups with an interest in disturbing the prevailing peace”.
Authorities imposed a curfew in the regional capital Imphal and surrounding areas and suspended internet services for five days.
Source: Dunya News
