Ahmedabad, May 30
At least two persons were killed and another injured as fresh violence erupted at Kadi taluka town of Mehsana district late last night, prompting the authorities to impose indefinite curfew in the area while the situation here remained peaceful, the police said. A person who was taking food at a kiosk on the outskirts of the Kadi town was killed and owner of the kiosk injured in a bomb explosion while a bus conductor was burnt alive, the police said here today.
Two persons, who had covered their faces with turbans, came to the kiosk to purchase food, when they hurled the bomb before escaping with the food.
The customer died on the spot while the kiosk owner, from a minority community, was injured, the police added.
As the tension mounted in the town a mob gathered at Kundal village between Kadi and Chhatral road and intercepted a state transport bus.
The irate mob then pulled out the
conductor, belonging to a minority community, from the bus and burnt him alive.
As the rumours about the violence rent high in the town, authorities immediately imposed an indefinite curfew in the town even though the night curfew was in force. Ahmedabad, however, remained peaceful.
In Vadodara the curfew imposed in Panigate police station area last night following violence and police firing that left four injured was lifted today in view of improvement in situation, Additional Police Commissioner Pritamsinh Thakur told PTI here.
Earlier, the Baroda Municipal Corporation had demolished 35 huts in Bamanpura which had made the dwellers of these huts agitated.
However, the situation at present was under control and patrolling has been intensified, the police added.
Concerned over the fresh spate of violence, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s Security Adviser K.P.S. Gill has directed officials concerned to take stern action against the guilty and streamline policing to continue with the nearly fortnight-long peace process.
Sources in Mr Gill’s office said the supercop is “personally reviewing” the developments regularly with DGP K. Chakravarthy, Special IG Amitabh Pathak and city Police Commissioner K.R. Kaushik among others.
PTI, UNI
