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Three more die in Ahmedabad,
police save two youths

One person was stabbed fatally and two others injured earlier this week succumbed even as police saved two minority youths from an armed mob in Ahmedabad on Thursday.

Nearly 200 Central Reserve Police Force personnel, who arrived in Ahmedabad from Delhi, were deployed in Gomtipur and Dariapur -- two of the worst-hit localities in the ongoing communal violence.

Two youths belonging to a minority community were saved by the police when they were about to be cornered by an armed crowd in Behrampura.

Police opened fire and lobbed teargas shells to disperse stone pelting mobs in Salatwada and Dariyapur injuring one person.

Two rounds were fired and 23 teargas shells burst to scare away clashing groups in the Delhi Darwaja area under the Madhupura police station.

A few houses belonging to members of minority community were burnt in Idgah circle under Madhupura police station, while four persons making crude bombs in Maninagar area were injured when the bombs went of accidently.

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