Ahmedabad, October 2
Group clashes and police firing have left 10 persons injured in Vadodara and Bhavnagar districts of Gujarat in the past 24 hours.
The police opened fire to disperse the clashing mobs at the Karachiliya Para slum area of Bhavnagar this afternoon, injuring four persons, police said.
Six persons, including a policeman, were wounded after two groups clashed in the sensitive Mehboobpura area of Vadodara yesterday. The trouble started after a group allegedly damaged a cart belonging to a member of the other group. The police lobbed teargas shells to disperse the clashing groups.
Heavy contingents of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) and the State Reserve Police were deployed in the area after violence erupted again today.
The police said 52 persons had been arrested. Security measures had been taken to check the spread of violence to the adjacent areas.
UNI
