A soldier from the <a href="Assam" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Assam</a> Rifles was injured while diffusing an improvised bomb in Saitan village in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/20-students-from-madhya-pradesh-currently-in-violence-hit-manipur-minister-23285254" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Manipur</a>'s Bishnupur district Friday morning, about 60 km south of Imphal, officials said.
A defence spokesperson said that the crude bomb was locally fabricated and the soldier who was trying to diffuse it did not suffer major injuries.
A day before, a policeman was killed and four others injured when suspected militants opened fire at them near Tera Khongfangbi also in Bishnupur district.
Since then police and army personnel had launched a combing operation to flush out the militants from the area, officials said.
Violent clashes had broken out in the northeastern state after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts on May 3 to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.
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The clashes were preceded by tension over the eviction of Kuki villagers from reserve forest land, which had led to a series of smaller agitations and tension between the Meiteis and Kukis.
Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur's population and live mostly in the Imphal Valley. Tribals -- Nagas and Kukis -- constitute another 40 per cent of the population and reside in the hill districts.
A total of 128 columns of the Indian Army and Assam Rifles or nearly 10,000 soldiers have been deployed in the affected areas.
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A defence spokesperson said that the crude bomb was locally fabricated and the soldier who was trying to diffuse it did not suffer major injuries

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