Life crippled in Manipur’s Kuki-Zo areas due to indefinite shutdown. At least 43 people, including 27 security personnel, were injured and a protester killed during the clashes in Kangpokpi and a few other districts on Saturday. The KZC, the apex body of the tribals, protested the resumption of the bus services between state capital Imphal and the hill districts. A spokesman of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) claimed that the indefinite shutdown is total and successful in Kang pokpi, Churachandpur, Tengnoupal, and Pherzawl districts. Police officials said that the shutdown badly affected normal life in Kang Pokpi district and partially affected the other Kuki Zo-dominated districts. The security forces used tear gas and minimum force to disperse the unruly mob. No untoward incident has been reported so far from any of the trouble-torn districts, a police official said. The MSTC buses and other vehicles carrying LPG gas and oil tankers plied along the Imphal-Bishnupur-Churach andpur and Church andpur-Imphal routes without any disturbance from the people. But a huge mob started pelting stones towards the bus at Gamgiphai in KangPokpi. Further, roadblocks were put up at various other places along the National Highway with huge numbers of protestors including women and children trying to immobilise the movement of thebus and the security forces by felling trees, putting huge stones and boulders on the road, and burning tyres. Two vehicles of theSecurity forces were also burnt down by the protesters on Saturday, the official added.