Ethnic violence in the Indian state of Manipur has left at least 55 people dead, according to hospitals in the city of Imphal.
A further 260 people have been hospitalized since violence broke out between members of the Kuki and Meitei ethnic groups earlier this week, hospital officials told CNN on Sunday. The two groups have been clashing in the streets of Imphal in India’s east and elsewhere. Gunshot wounds are the most common injury, according to officials at Imphal hospitals the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences and Churachandpur District Hospital.
I don’t have anything.” He said there were about 5,500 people staying in his camp and that there were about six or seven camps in Imphal in total. “There have been so many deaths,” he added. “A mother and son they were on their way to a camp. On their way, a mob encountered them and beat the son to death. The mother was trying to protect the son, she was killed too.” CNN reached out to the state government of Manipur and the Indian army on Sunday but there was no immediate response.
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