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Train coach burnt, toll 8
Muzaffarpur (Bihar), September 27
The death toll climbed to eight in the curfew-bound town as a mob torched a coach of a passenger train today in the aftermath of the large-scale violence over the killing of an abducted boy while the government ordered a judicial inquiry into yesterday’s incidents. The police and central paramilitary forces staged flag marches in the town. Hundreds of people forcibly stopped the Raxaul-Sonepur passenger train near here and set ablaze a coach after ordering the passengers out. PTI

Sangma to continue on panel
New Delhi, September 27
Former Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma today scotched rumours that he was quitting the Constitution Review Commission. “There is no question of my quitting the commission” he told reporters here today. TNS