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Indian rioters attack police, set fires

May. 4, 2006 at 4:19AM

A mob attacked a police station and burned a bakery and an oil mill in the Indian town of Vadodara on the third day of religious riots.
      The Press Trust of India said that the attack on the police station Wednesday night prompted the police to use tear gas and open fire.
      In another part of the city, mobs set fire to a bakery and an oil mill.
      The Indian government has sent troops to control the riots in the city, located in the western state of Gujarat.
      The unrest started Monday when city officials demolished a shrine of a Muslim Sufi saint as part of a development plan. Local Muslims protested the move, and riots ensued involving the town's Muslim and Hindu factions.
      The violence has brought back memories of the 2002 Gujarat riots, when the same Muslim colonies were targeted, the Indian NDTV.com online reported.


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