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NEW DELHI: Three pastors were gunned down on Wednesday in India’s restive northeastern Manipur state, police and officials said, the latest flare-up in a region gripped by ethnic conflict.
Manipur has seen periodic clashes for nearly three years between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki minority, in which more than 250 people have been killed.
The pastors belonged to the Kuki community but the identity of the gunmen was not immediately known.
“Three Kuki pastors were killed today morning but the identity of the perpetrators is unknown so far,” a senior police official said. Four others were wounded, Manipur chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh said in a statement.
