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India-Pakistan
Four killed in Gujarat riots
2006-05-02
Four people were killed Monday when police allegedly fired at mobs of Hindus and Muslims on a rampage in a western Indian city after authorities demolished a small Islamic shrine. Residents in the Fatehpur area of Vadodara (formerly known as Baroda) in Gujarat state blamed the deaths on police whom they said used bullets and tear gas. But police said firearms used by rioters hit them. A curfew was imposed in the city as the sectarian riots led to looting, police said. At least 10 other people were injured by gunfire from the police or bricks hurled by rioters, police said.

The riot was sparked after the Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) began to demolish a Muslim dargah, or shrine near a landmark city gate, witnesses said. "We offered to remove it ourselves but the VMC officials chose to demolish the dargah, raze it to the ground and build a road over it."
Posted by:Fred

#2  An unruly mob on Tuesday night set ablaze a car burning alive a person as sporadic clashes continued in the city where two days of violence sparked by the demolition of a dargah left six dead.

One person was charred to death when a mob set on fire a car in curfew-clamped Arjuwa road at around midnight, Vadodra Police Commissioner Deepak Swaroop said.

He said police were ascertaining reasons that led to the fresh flare-up.

Earlier in the day, one person was killed when police fired at rioters in Moti Vohrawaad area in the wee hours.

With these two deaths, the toll in two days of violence in the city rose to six, three were killed in police firing, two were stabbed to death and one was burnt alive.

A total of 40 people were arrested in connection with the violence.

Police also fired warning shots in the air at Nalbandh Vada area to scatter a stone-pelting mob during the funeral procession of a person killed in police firing.

The protesters also threw acid bottles injuring five policemen.
Posted by: john   2006-05-02 20:02  

#1  mobs of Hindus and Muslims

That is a load of BS from a Pak editor.

The municipal authorities have destroyed dozens of little roadside hindu temples over the past year since they encroach on the roadways and prevent widening.

The Hindus have not protested.

One little muslim building gets razed and the muslims riot. They turned down requests to relocate the structure saying this was against their religion .. the tiny structure must apparently stay in the middle of a roadway until the end of thime.

Mobs of hindus and muslims? There were no hindus there.

Posted by: john   2006-05-02 18:08  

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