At least six people were killed and armories were looted as conflict erupted again in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur ahead of a no-confidence motion on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for failing to contain earlier clashes.
There were daylong violence between two ethnic groups and attacks on security personnel on Saturday, according to a social media post by the Manipur police and local reports. The police said it’s raiding areas to recover arms and ammunitions stolen from the armories.
A video last month surfaced on social media showing two women getting sexually assaulted, drawing attention and public anger to the ethnic conflict in the state ruled by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. That pushed Modi to make his first public comments on the clashes that has engulfed relatively remote Manipur, which borders Myanmar.
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