New Delhi: Indian police in troubled northeastern Manipur state of India today battled with Kuki minority forces and killed at least 10 people after their station was attacked, a district official said.
According to Kashmir Media Service, one officer was wounded as they “repulsed an attack on a police station”, Krishna Kumar, deputy commissioner of the state’s Jiribam district told the media, adding that “10 bodies of miscreants have been recovered so far”.
The violence is the latest in a simmering conflict that broke out in Manipur in May 2023, between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki community.
The violence comes after the burned corpse of a Kuki woman was found in the district last week, sparking fury.
At least 200 people have since been killed in the violence, and communities have splintered into rival groups across swaths of the state, which borders war-torn Myanmar.
Manipur is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.