AGENCIES

At least four people were killed, two of them by police fire, in India’s northeastern state of Manipur on Tuesday, officials said, after months of relative calm.

Two children from the mostly Hindu Meitei community were killed after a bomb exploded in a house in the Meitei-dominated Bishnupur district, the officials and the chief minister’s office said.

Later on Tuesday, police opened fire to control a crowd that had stormed a camp belonging to security forces, killing two people, the state’s interior minister, Govindas Konthoujam said.

A partial internet shutdown was in place.

The children killed in the latest unrest belonged to the Meitei community, whose members alleged the attack was carried out by Kuki militants.

Kuki groups denied the accusations.