At least 19 people were injured when Army and RAF personnel fired tear gas shells on local residents in Kangvai and Phougakchao areas of Bishnupur district in Manipur, on Thursday, while they were heading to the mass burial site for the Kuki-Zomi people, officials said.

The Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) had planned the burial of 35 people, who were killed in ethnic riots in the state, on Thursday at Tuibuong in Churachandpur, on the border with Bishnupur.