PETALING JAYA: Men's singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia's Thailand Open campaign ended in the first round after he lost to Israel's Daniil Dubovenko on Wednesday (May 13).
NEW DELHI: Three pastors were gunned down Wednesday in India 's restive northeastern Manipur state, police and officials said, the latest flare-up in a region gripped by ethnic conflict .
Manipur has seen periodic clashes for nearly three years between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki minority, in which more than 250 people have been killed.
"Three Kuki pastors were killed today morning but the identity of the perpetrators is unknown so far," a senior police official told AFP on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to media. "I vehemently condemn the dastardly terror act... which resulted in the death of three innocent civilians," he said. Kuki groups have blamed an armed faction said to represent the interests of the Naga tribe, another major community in the state.
Like the Kukis, the Nagas are primarily Christian, but tensions between the two groups have escalated in recent months, signalling a widening of the conflict. The Nagas and the Kukis have competing claims of their respective ethnic homelands in the hills of Manipur, leading to frequent conflicts. In 1993, clashes between the two groups erupted into widespread ethnic violence that killed hundreds and displaced entire villages.
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