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India-Pakistan
Eight dead in Gujarat rioting
2002-04-03
  • Eight people died as fresh violence flared in India's riot-racked Gujarat state on Wednesday, a day ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to the state. The latest victims of India's worst religious bloodletting in a decade included a family of five Muslims who were burned to death by a Hindu mob on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city. "Five charred bodies (of Muslims) were recovered...from one of three houses burned by a Hindu mob," a senior police officer told Reuters. Four others were in hospital with burns.

    Three other people were killed and 20 injured when police sought to disperse Hindu and Muslims gangs hurling petrol bombs and throwing stones at each other in Ahmedabad and in Umbhrat town, 70 km (40 miles) to the south. It was the highest one-day death toll in the past two weeks.
    Lookitdat! VHP/RSS is using the same tactics the Palestinians used to greet Zinni.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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