The police fired tear gas shells to disperse a mob in Manipur's capital Imphal on Thursday. The mob had gathered at Khwairamband Bazaar in Imphal where the body of a man killed in a gunfight in Kangpokpi district earlier in the day was brought and put in a coffin. Manipur has been in the grips of ethnic violence between the state's Meitei and tribal communities since May 3. Over 100 people have so far been killed in the violence.
The police fired tear gas shells to disperse a mob in Manipur's capital Imphal on Thursday. The mob had gathered at Khwairamband Bazaar in Imphal where the body of a man killed in a gunfight in Kangpokpi district earlier in the day was brought and put in a coffin. Manipur has been in the grips of ethnic violence between the state's Meitei and tribal communities since May 3. Over 100 people have so far been killed in the violence.