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British national visiting Gujarat killed, two missing

A British national visiting Gujarat has been killed and two others were missing in communal clashes in Gujarat, a British High Commission spokesperson in Mumbai said on Saturday.

Mohammad Aswat Nallabhai (41), a resident of Batley in northern England, died when he was assaulted by unidentified miscreants.

He was on his way from New Delhi to Lajpur village in Gujarat for a social visit, along with three of his relative, when he was assaulted in Himmatnagar, 160 km from Ahmedabad.

His three relatives were also assaulted, two of whom have gone missing.

The High Commission spokesperson identified the two as Saeed Dawood and Shakil Dawood The third, Imran Dawood, was admitted to a hospital and later discharged, he added.

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that the police have been instructed to track down the two British nationals of Indian origin.

Addressing a press conference in Ahmedabad, Modi said that he received a communication from the British High Commission in Delhi on the fate of its three nationals and accordingly the police was directed to do the needful at the earliest.

"We will be informing the High Commission as soon as we come to know anything about them," Modi said.

To a question, he skirted a detailed reply on what would be his government's response to the letter served by the National Human Rights Commission on alleged inaction during the violence in the state.

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