The World - News from Feb. 18, 1986
Indian police battled Hindu rioters in Jammu, about 300 miles north of New Delhi, and Hindu and Muslim mobs clashed in Sehore, about 370 miles southwest of the capital, leaving four people dead and more than 200 injured. The violence, in its fourth day, grew out of a court decision permitting Hindus to worship at a shrine in Uttar Pradesh state that is claimed by Muslims. Earlier, in attacks in two towns outside the Sikh holy city of Amritsar, Sikh extremists killed a right-wing Hindu leader and a Hindu worker for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s party.
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