Peace talks in India’s strife-torn Manipur state have suffered a setback after fresh violence broke out when unknown gunmen attacked a police station and set on fire five houses.
The attackers opened fire with highly sophisticated weapons at the Borobekera police station in Jiribam district in the early hours of Oct. 19, local officials said.
However, the army and state police repealed the attack, and there were no human casualties. A search operation was launched for the attackers across the district.
Media reports blamed the armed groups of indigenous Kuki tribal people, who are mostly Christians, for the attack as the houses of the Meitei Hindus were set on fire.
A Christian leader disagreed with the “misleading” reports and said “unknown miscreants” had “set on fire a closed Christian school at the district headquarters on Oct. 18,” a day before the Kuki people attacked the police station and Meitei houses.
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