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Tense calm in India’s Manipur where ethnic riots claimed 62 lives

An Indian army soldier inspects a ransacked church that was set on fire at Heiroklian village in Manipur's Senapati district [Arun Sankar/AFP]

Rioting and ethnic clashes last week in India’s Manipur have killed at least 62 people and displaced 35,000, officials say, as a tense calm prevails across the remote northeastern state.

Manipur’s chief minister, N Biren Singh, told reporters late on Monday that about 230 people were injured and 1,700 houses burned in the violence.

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