The incident comes a day after an attack in the Khamenlok area left nine people dead and injured ten others.
Fresh violence erupted in Manipur as several houses were set ablaze by a mob in Imphal on Thursday afternoon, June 15, news agency PTI reported.
The report said, citing officials quoted above, that security forces were forced to use tear gas shells at the mob at New Checkon in Imphal.
The incident comes a day after an attack in the Khamenlok area left nine people dead and injured ten others.
This happened even as the army and the Assam Rifles intensified their “area domination” operations in the aftermath of the recent spurt in violence in the strife-torn state of Manipur.
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Army and Assam Rifles columns intensified patrolling, taking down barriers wherever they had been created.
More than 100 people have lost their lives in the ethnic violence between the people of the Meitei and Kuki community in Manipur that broke out a month ago.
The government has imposed a curfew on 11 districts and banned the internet in the state.
On May 3, clashes broke out after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community’s demand for the Scheduled Tribe status.
