Around 23,000 people flee unrest in the hilly northeast Indian state of Manipur as violence erupted with protesters reportedly setting fire to vehicles and buildings
A few men, infants, older women and young girls were huddled inside three military trucks. / Photo: AFP
Around 23,000 people have fled the unrest which erupted last week in the hilly northeast state bordering Myanmar. "Then they came again and finished all 92 houses , ransacked the church , the school and whatever was left," the 54-year-old said, surrounded by exhausted and traumatised men, women and children.
The latest clashes erupted last week between the majority Meitei people, who are mostly Hindu, living in and around the Manipur capital Imphal and the mainly Christian Kuki tribe of the hills.
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