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Violence hits parts of AP,
Maharashtra, Gujarat

Mobs hurling stones clashed with police, damaged several vehicles in Aurangabad, Pune and Nanded towns of Maharashtra, Broach district in Gujarat and Hyderabad.

Police fired in the air and lobbed teargas shells in Aurangabad after 13 cops were injured in stone-pelting by a mob, a Bombay report said.

The trouble began as activists of the Students Islamic Movement of India attempted to burn a symbolic effigy of those reportedly behind the Delhi episode.

Protestors outside the Jama Masjid in Aurangabad resorted to stone-pelting and attempted to set on fire a police van after two SIMI activists were arrested. Police lobbed teargas shells and fired six rounds in the air to disperse the mob.

Two teenagers were injured in Nanded when protestors stoned business establishments and at least six cops were injured in stone-pelting in Pune where a mob turned violent after a provocative poster was put up in front of a place of worship.

In Hyderabad, six policemen and two journalists were injured and some vehicles were damaged in stone-pelting near Charminar in the old city area. Three persons were taken into custody in connection with the incidents.

Reports of stone-pelting also came from Broach district where Muslim groups had called for a strike.

PTI

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