India, July 6 -- A 56-year-old Kuki woman and her daughter were wounded in a fresh gunfight between two armed groups in ethnic violence-hit Manipur's Kangpokpi district even as at least three houses were set afire in a separate incident on Sunday.

Police said the gunfight erupted around 5:10pm at Thingkhogjang village near the Imphal-Silchar National Highway.

Kuki-Inpi Manipur, a civil body, condemned the attack as barbaric and cowardly. It blamed Naga insurgent groups, the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah), or NSCN-IM, and the Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF), for the attack.

Officials said Kuki National Front-Presidential faction (KNF-P) and Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), both Kuki outfits, which have signed a suspens...