Riots after India mosque overview claim two lives

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Indian Muslim dissidents clashed with police Sunday with at slightest two individuals murdered in riots started by a overview examining on the off chance that a 17th-century mosque was built on a Hindu sanctuary. “Two people were affirmed dead,” Pawan Kumar, a police officer in Sambhal within the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, told AFP, including that 16 police officers were “genuinely harmed” amid the clashes. The Press Believe of India news organization cited authorities saying three individuals had passed on. Hindu dissident bunches have laid claim to a few mosques they say were built over Hindu sanctuaries amid the Muslim Mughal realm centuries prior. Road fights broke out when a group of surveyors entered the Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal on orders from a nearby court, after a appeal from a Hindu cleric claiming it was built on the location of a Hindu sanctuary. Nonconformists on Sunday heaved rocks at police, who let go tear gas canisters to clear the swarm,