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Death toll in Gujarat violence mounts to 633

Fourteen more bodies were on Friday pulled out of burnt houses pushing the toll in the violence that rocked Gujarat to 633.

Six bodies were recovered from debris of houses at Sardarpur village of Mehsana district, one body each from Anand in Kheda district and Dehgam in Gandhinagar district, four in Dahod district and two from Ahmedabad, the police said.

In Ahmedabad the toll went up to 275, the police said.

The situation in violence-ravaged areas in other parts of the state was gradually returning to normal, the police added. Army continued to patrol sensitive areas, though no major untoward incident was reported from riot-affected districts of Panchmahal, Surat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Sabarkantha, Mehsana, Banaskantha and Kheda in the last 24 hours, the police said.

Curfew, imposed in over 40 places, was being gradually relaxed though night curfew remained in force as a precautionary measure, they said.

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