Police arrested 23 people on Sunday in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur for ransacking and setting fire to the homes of lawmakers and ministers, while hundreds demonstrated against recent violent killings in defiance of a curfew.

Following protests over the discovery of six bodies in Manipur's Jiribam district, a curfew has been imposed in Imphal West and East. Demonstrators, demanding justice, targeted the homes of government officials,

Large-scale violence was reported in parts of Manipur's Imphal Valley districts as mobs stormed the residences of local MLAs and destroyed property in protest against the killing of three women and three children in Jiribam district.

Authorities in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur suspended internet and mobile services and imposed an indefinite curfew on Saturday in areas where protesters were besieging politicians' homes over deadly inter-ethnic violence.