At least 11 killed in ethnic clashes in Manipur

INDIA: Clashes between rival ethnic groups in India's remote northeast have killed 11 people, police said Sunday, as they imposed a strict curfew in the area and issued shoot to kill orders.

Militants from Manipur state's majority Meiti tribe killed six members of the minority Kuki tribe in a gunbattle late Saturday in the town of Moreh, sparking a retaliatory attack by armed Kuki that killed five ethnic Meiti construction workers, according to a statement from the police control room in Imphal, the capital of Manipur.

Police said a curfew has been imposed and that they have been ordered to shoot anyone violating it.

Moreh is the last Indian town before the border with Myanmar, some 120 kilometers southeast of Imphal.

Gauhati, Monday, AP