AHMEDABAD: Sway incidents of Hindu-Muslim violence were reported from Surat Ankleshwar and Baroda cities of Gujarat since Thursday while indefinite curfew continued in Baroda city Friday without relaxation. Sixteen persons were earlier killed in Baroda.
The curfew imposed in Surat and Ankleshwar was relaxed during the day police said.
In Surat one shop was set on fire by a violent mob and glass panes of three state transport buses smashed. Police burst teargas shells to disperse the stone pelting crowd four persons were injured when they tried to escape from a house following disturbances in the city’s Varachha area Thursday night.
Another report said four men of the state reserve police were killed on the spot and 19 others injured when a van in which they were travelling collided with a truck on the highway in Kheda district Thursday.
The SRP men were going to Ankleshwar town in Broach district for joining the police force there.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 3, 1991
