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Curfew in parts of India’s Manipur after protests over killing of students

A police officer fires a tear smoke shell to disperse people protesting over the killing of the students in Imphal [File: Reuters]

Authorities have imposed a curfew in the capital and some other places in India’s restive state of Manipur after dozens of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students.

Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an intense civil war fought over land, jobs and political clout between its two largest local groups.

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