40 people injured in clashes between residents and military in Manipur

At least 40 people were injured in violent clashes between residents and military personnel in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, Report informs referring to The Economic Times.

There was high tension in Manipur after hundreds of people defied curfew and started marching towards the barricades placed by the security forces in Manipur's Bishnupur district in a protest march called by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (Cocomi).

Police had to fire tear gas shells and rubber bullets to quell the protesters. More than 40 people were injured.

Security forces stopped the protestors from reaching an Army barricade at Phougakchao Ikhai in Bishnupur district, a few kilometers away from tribal-dominated Churachandpur district.

The state government had appealed to valley-based Cocomi not to take out the march. Security along the Churachandpur borders has been intensified. The protesters alleged that locals, due to the Army barricade at Phougakchao Ikhai, were not able to visit their homes in Torbung, which they had to vacate after the ethnic violence.