A 53-year-old man was killed and several others were injured in ethnic clashes between the Hmar and Zomi tribes in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, 65 km from the state capital Imphal, the police said.

A 53-year-old man was killed and several others were injured in ethnic clashes between the Hmar and Zomi tribes in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, 65 km from the state capital Imphal, the police said.

Before that, clashes broke out on Monday night over a road rage incident on Sunday involving a Hmar leader, who was thrashed by unknown men.

Tuesday’s hostilities erupted after some people tried to remove the flag of a Zomi armed group in the district dominated by the Kuki and Zo tribes, the police said.

Before the security forces could reach the affected locality, mobs and armed members of both the Zomi and Hmar tribes fired shots and threw stones at each other, the police said.

Security personnel fired tear gas shells and several rounds in the air to disperse the mobs, a police officer said.