Manipur: 4 shot dead in continuing violence

Imphal, Agencies: Four people were shot dead in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Thursday evening as ethnic violence continued in the northeastern state, police said.

The incident occurred at Ningthoukhong Kha Khunou and the victims included a man and his 60-year-old father.

Quoting one person who escaped the shooting, an official said, "Five-six armed miscreants came when the labourers were tiling the farmland and shot them from point-blank range."

With these four, at least seven people including two police commandos were killed in separate districts of the state since Wednesday.