Tense calm in India’s Manipur where ethnic riots claimed 62 lives. It left nothing but ashes.

Curfew in place and peace talks held as state’s chief minister says about 230 people injured and 1,700 houses burned in the violence.

While the ruling BJP claims the situation is under control and there are no further violence, army and paramilitary forces still patrol the streets.

Imphal, India – Chiinlianmoi lies stretched at a government hospital in Churachandpur district of India’s Manipur state, struggling to move her body as doctors treat a bullet wound in her left thigh.

The 26-year-old looks visibly distraught as she narrates to Al Jazeera the tales of violence she witnessed earlier this month after ethnic riots broke out in the remote northeastern state.

Rioting and ethnic clashes last week in India’s Manipur have killed at least 62 people and displaced 35,000, officials say, as a tense calm prevails across the remote northeastern state.

Manipur’s chief minister, N Biren Singh, told reporters late on Monday that about 230 people were injured and 1,700 houses burned in the violence.