The World - News from April 29, 1985
Indian police opened fire on 30,000 rioters who set fire to a slum colony in Surat, Gujarat state, during protests against a government policy setting education and job quotas for lower-caste Indians, the Press Trust of India news agency said. At least 200 huts were destroyed, hundreds arrested and four injured in the rioting, the agency said. In other violence in the state, a man was stabbed to death in Kadi, north of Ahmedabad, state police said.
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