Hindu-Muslim clashes in India
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HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) -- Six people have died in the Indian city of Hyderabad after clashes broke out between Hindus and Muslims on the eleventh anniversary of the razing of a mosque, police said.
Twenty-four people were hurt in the incident late on Saturday, 12 suffering bullet injuries as police opened fire to control rampaging mobs in areas where Muslims are in a majority.
"Indefinite curfew has been imposed in several areas of the city after the rioting but there has been no violence since 1 a.m," police official A K Khan told Reuters.
"The situation is tense but under control."
On December 6, 1992, Hindu zealots destroyed the 16th century Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya, triggering riots that killed more than 3,000 people.
The row has symbolised Hindu-Muslim tension since, and sometimes exploded in violence.
No violence has been reported elsewhere in the country and even in Hyderabad, where 38 percent of the population of six million is Muslim, the police chief had thanked people for maintaining the peace shortly before the violence erupted.
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