At least 11 killed in ethnic clashes in India's northeast

  • 12/15/2022
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GAUHATI, India, June 10, SPA -- Clashes between rival ethnic groups in India's remote northeast have killed 11 people, police said Sunday, as they imposed a strict curfew in the area and issued shoot to kill orders. Militants from Manipur state's majority Meiti tribe killedsix members of the minority Kuki tribe in a gunbattle lateSaturday in the town of Moreh, sparking a retaliatoryattack by armed Kuki that killed five ethnic Meiticonstruction workers, according to a statement from thepolice control room in Imphal, the capital of Manipur. Police said a curfew has been imposed and that they have been ordered to shoot anyone violating it, the Associated Press reported.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/457544

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