Situation improving in Manipur, curfew relaxed in 11 districts

The situation across violence-hit Manipur is improving, with no fresh reports of any untoward incident, while curfew has been relaxed in all the 11 districts where it was clamped, officials said on May 9.

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on May 8 said that 60 people were killed, 231 injured and 1,700 houses including religious places burnt in the ethnic violence that rocked the northeastern State for the past few days.