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Police mount vigil after mosque blast in India town BOMBAY, Nov 22 (Reuters)- Armed policemen patrolled the streets of a western Indian town on Saturday to prevent an outbreak of communal clashes, a day after a bomb attack on a mosque injured dozens and sparked sporadic violence. Police said Parbhani town, about 500 km (300 miles) east of India's financial hub Bombay, had remained peaceful through the night after men riding a motorcycle threw two bombs at a mosque on Friday and injured at least 35 worshippers."Extra security forces from other cities have been deployed all across Parbhani and a special squad has been called in from Bombay," Kumar Shinde, police chief of Parbhani, told Reuters. He said 17 people had been taken into preventive custody and a curfew imposed on Friday remained in place. Groups of Muslims and Hindus set shops and vehicles on fire in the town of nearly 500,000 after the bomb attack, which took place during prayers on the last Friday before the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.Shinde said no arrests had been made yet in connection with the arson and rioting. It was also not yet known who was responsible for the bomb attacks. Parbhani police insisted that a single bomb was thrown into the mosque, contradicting the state's deputy chief minister who said two crude bombs had been hurled.Friday's attacks came nearly three months after Bombay was rocked by twin car bombings which killed 52 people and injured more than 150. |
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