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AHMEDABAD, INDIA, March 19, 2002: In a fresh outbreak of violence in Bharuch and Modasa towns of Gujarat, four persons were killed and five injured on Tuesday when police opened fire to disperse a rioting mob. Trouble began when a mob gathered at Dandia Bazar and other old city area and indulged in rioting at around1.30 pm. Police had to open fire to quell the mob. “Four persons have been killed and five are injured. Curfew has been imposed in A-Division police station area,” Bharuch Collector Anju Sharma said. Bharuch B-Division police station area is already under curfew. In Gandhinagar, the state Home Minister Gordhan Zadaphia said he was sending reinforcements to Bharuch and Modasda in view of the fresh violence. Rioting and subsequent police firing in A-Division police station area of Bharuch left two dead and five injured in Bharuch on Tuesday. Meanwhile, on Monday evening an 18-year-old school student was killed near Shaktinath Mahadev area while he was returning home after appearing for the school board exams. Miscreants pulled out the boy from the autorickshaw and hit him on the head. The boy died of serious head injuries. In Modasa town of Sabarkantha district, widespread arson and looting was reported on Tuesday morning. The superintendent of police of Sabarkantha, Nitiraj Solanki said several shops had been burnt in the violence. “Two persons have been killed in police firing,” Solanki said. Violence also broke our in Dhobhidal area of Gandhiwada area of Modasa where a monetary dispute between two groups flared up and resulted in widespread violence. One state transport bus was stoned and several shops set on fire by the rampaging mobs, sources said. The mobs also fired at each other with private weapons in which, according to unconfirmed reports, several persons had been injured.

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