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Shops set ablaze in Murbad, police resort to firing

Police fired 12 rounds in the air on Friday to disperse a rampaging mob that set afire shops in Murbad in Maharashtra's Thane district after looting them and resorted to heavy stone-pelting during the VHP-sponsored bandh to protest the Godhra killings.

The 100-strong mob set fire to a number of shops and pelted stones at the police, which ultimately resorted to firing to quell arsonists after bursting of teargas shells and a lathi-charge failed to deter the mob.

However, no one was injured in the firing as well as stone-pelting incidents, Additional Superintendent of Police S J More told reporters.

Fire tenders were rushed from Ulhasnagar, Kalyan and Dombivali to Murbad to douse the fires. The situation was still 'tense', police sources said.

The mob attacked shops when most of the owners were offering prayers. The remaining shop-owners sought refuge in a place of worship, police sources said.

However, when the mob followed them, they sought shelter in a police station, located few yards away from the shops, they said.

Earlier, the mob moved around the town, about 30 km from Kalyan, appealing to shopkeepers to down shutters, the police sources said.

At some places, shutters were forcibly pulled down, they added.

District judge of Aurangabad and president of the Wakf Trust Board S K Shinde had a narrow escape when the mob damaged his car while he was on his way to Mumbai from Aurangabad.

PTI

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