Mobs set truck on fire, attack police, commuters in Juhapura

Mobs set truck on fire, attack police, commuters in Juhapura
By our correspondent
Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 17 November, 2009


Mobs set truck on fire, attack police, commuters in Juhapura


Mobs consisting hundreds of Muslims in Muslim dominated Juhapura area of Ahmedabad set a truck on fire and pelted stones on police as well as on vehicles passing from the area where National Highway connecting Ahmedabad to Saurashtrra and Kutch is located.

Police lobbed several tear gas shells to control the mobs on violence. The trouble started when a student from this area was hit and killed by a truck. According to local people, this was the third such incident in last three days in which a local person suffered death due to accident.