BBC Online :
Tension prevails in India’s Gujarat state where two days of caste-related violence has left eight people dead.
Fresh clashes were reported overnight and the army has been deployed to maintain peace.
A curfew has been imposed, after members of the influential Patel community, demanding quotas in government jobs, clashed with the police and local people.
PM Narendra Modi has urged the people of his home state to maintain peace.
Clashes broke out late on Tuesday when police briefly detained the protesters’ firebrand leader Hardik Patel, who had hours earlier led a massive rally in Ahmedabad.
Nine people, including a policeman and a father and son, have been killed in the violence and at least a dozen policemen injured. About 40 police stations and 70 buses have been set ablaze.
The main city of Ahmedabad was calm on Thursday and shops and businesses were beginning to reopen in some areas, the AFP news agency reported.
The BBC Hindi’s Ankur Jain in Ahmedabad says overnight clashes between the police and protesters were reported from Surat, Vapi and Rajkot. A policeman who was injured in the clashes in Surat died in hospital late on Wednesday.
Tension prevails in India’s Gujarat state where two days of caste-related violence has left eight people dead.
Fresh clashes were reported overnight and the army has been deployed to maintain peace.
A curfew has been imposed, after members of the influential Patel community, demanding quotas in government jobs, clashed with the police and local people.
PM Narendra Modi has urged the people of his home state to maintain peace.
Clashes broke out late on Tuesday when police briefly detained the protesters’ firebrand leader Hardik Patel, who had hours earlier led a massive rally in Ahmedabad.
Nine people, including a policeman and a father and son, have been killed in the violence and at least a dozen policemen injured. About 40 police stations and 70 buses have been set ablaze.
The main city of Ahmedabad was calm on Thursday and shops and businesses were beginning to reopen in some areas, the AFP news agency reported.
The BBC Hindi’s Ankur Jain in Ahmedabad says overnight clashes between the police and protesters were reported from Surat, Vapi and Rajkot. A policeman who was injured in the clashes in Surat died in hospital late on Wednesday.
