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  "path": "/news/1989679/internet-down-in-manipur-after-unrest-kills-four",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T02:34:05.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.dawn.com",
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  "textContent": "NEW DELHI: A partial internet shutdown was in place in northeastern India’s troubled Manipur state on Tuesday after renewed violence caused the deaths of four people, including two children, officials said.\n\nManipur has seen periodic clashes for nearly three years between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki community that have killed more than 250 people.\n\nThe latest flare-up on Tuesday came after months of relative peace and followed a reported attack by Kuki groups that killed two Meitei children in Bishnupur district, according to a security official and another government official.\n\nAn incensed Meitei mob later stormed a paramilitary police camp, leading soldiers to open fire and resulting in the deaths of two more people, two officials told _AFP_. Another five were wounded.\n\nThe local government said it had ordered all internet and mobile data services in volatile districts to be shut off for five days to bring the unrest under control.\n\nAuthorities also announced a curfew in some areas, including Bishnupur and the state capital Imphal.\n\nThe reported Kuki attack “appears to be the handiwork of individuals or groups with vested interests in disturbing the prevailing peace in the state”, read a statement issued by the office of Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh.\n\nA “massive combing operation is underway” to apprehend the perpetrators, the statement said. “Helicopters are also being used,” it added.\n\nThe Indigenous Tribal Leaders; Forum, a Kuki civil society body, said the attack “should not be attributed” to the community.\n\nInternet services were shut down for months in Manipur during the initial outbreak of violence in 2023, which displaced around 60,000 people from their homes, according to government figures.\n\nThousands of the state’s residents are still unable to return home owing to ongoing tensions.\n\nLongstanding enmity between the Meitei and Kuki communities revolves around competition for land and public jobs. Rights activists have accused local leaders of exacerbating ethnic divisions for political gain.\n\n_Published in Dawn, April 8th, 2026_",
  "title": "Internet down in Manipur after unrest kills four"
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