Click to play videoNew Delhi: At least 35 people, including seven policemen, were injured and 12 shops torched in two communal clashes which erupted during Holi festivities in Rajasthan's Chittorgarh and Tonk cities on Saturday.
Eighteen people, five of them policemen, were injured in Chittorgarh, some 275 kms from Jaipur. Trouble began when an altercation intensified between groups of revellers who hurled stones at each other in the narrow alleys of the city.
However, curfew has been clamped, District Collector PL Agarwal told PTI. Twelve shops and some vehicles were set afire during the clash triggered by a trivial issue, he said. Police fired rubber bullets and teargas shells to disperse clashing groups, he added.
The injured have been rushed to the hospital while adequate police personnel have been deployed to maintain law and order in the city.
In Tonk, the trouble erupted when members of a particular community were taking out a Holi procession at Heera Chowk, SP (Tonk) Giriraj Meena told PTI.
Some youths allegedly used abusive language against members of another community sparking the violence, he said. Ten people, including two policemen, were wounded when the two sides pelted stones at each other, the SP said.
The situation was now under control though tension ran high in the city, he said. Three FIRs were registered in connection with the communal clash.
Unrest in Gujarat
Holi revellers attacked members of a minority community in a village in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, sparking a clash that left five injured, police said on Sunday.
A group of Muslims from Mazagar village, travelling by a jeep, were stopped by an unruly mob of Holi revellers, said Banaskantha district police chief Vipul Agarwal.
The mob demanded money from the group, which included women, and threatened to splatter them with colours if they did not pay up.
When the group refused to oblige, the angry mob threw colours at them and damaged the vehicle, breaking its glass panes.
After reaching their village, they complained about the incident and a group of men from Mazagar reached the spot where the incident took place.
They were attacked by the same mob, who beat them with sticks and threw stones at them, Agarwal said, adding that five people were injured in the clash.
The injured were admitted to hospital and were identified as Maulvi Sajjidvali, Usmanbhai, Ayubbhai, Abdul Rashid and Abbasbhai.
(With inputs from IANS)
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