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Violence continues in Ahmedabad

Seven people were injured, including one in police firing, in continuing incidents of violence in the curfew-bound Saherkotda and Gomtipur areas of Ahmedabad late on Wednesday night.

At least two persons were injured, one in police firing, in the violence under Saherkotda police station area, police said on Thursday.

A total of 21 rounds were fired and 25 teargas shells lobbed to disperse mobs indulging in setting fire to houses in Nirmalpur in Saherkotda area, they said adding, three houses and a truck were burnt in the fire.

At least 11 people were detained in this connection, police said.

In another incident, five persons were injured when acid bulbs were hurled at them in Gomtipur, a labour class-dominated area on Wednesday night.

Indefinite curfew continued in Shahpur, Vejalpur and Saherkotda police station areas while it was relaxed in Gomtipur, Rakhiyal and Bapunagar for four hours for women to buy essential commodities.

Forty-one people have been killed and scores injured in the renewed violence since Sunday.

The situation though tense is under control, police added.

PTI

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