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India imposed a curfew in the capital and some areas of its restive state of Manipur on Thursday, after scores of students were injured in violence following protests against the alleged abduction and murder of two students, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Ethnic violence has plunged the northeastern state bordering Myanmar into what many security experts describe as an intense civil war fought over land, jobs and political clout between its two largest local groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cIndefinite curfew had to be implemented in Imphal and in some other districts,\u201d L. Kailun, a senior police official based in the state capital, told Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n More than 80 students were injured in Wednesday\u2019s clashes, another police official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n He added that the situation was \u201cextremely tense\u201d after armed mobs vandalised an office of the ruling political party and hurled petrol bombs at two police sites.<\/p>\n Mobile internet services have been suspended<\/a> in the state for five days, officials said.<\/p>\n Since the violence<\/a> first erupted<\/a> on May 3, more than 180 people have been killed and over 50,000 have fled their homes in Manipur.<\/p>\n