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May 28, 2006
India: Muslims And Hindus Battle In Gujarat
News from Reuters via Yahoo and South Africa's Independent reports that at least 30 people have been injured in the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, in the west of India.
Hundreds of people were involved in the fighting, which included stone throwing and hurling burning objects at each other, acccording to a police official.
Earlier this month there were riots between Muslims and Hindus in Vadodara city in the same state, where six people were killed and scores were injured.
The state saw extensive violence when riots in 2002 saw more than 1,000 killed, mostly from the Muslim community. The state is governed by the firecely nationalistic Hindu party, the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 28, 2006 1:56 PM
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