The World - News from July 15, 1986
Four people were stabbed to death in India’s western state of Gujarat, and police fired on suspected arsonists as violence between Hindus and Muslims continued there for the sixth day. The stabbings brought the death toll to 58. A police official in the state capital of Ahmedabad said police fired three rounds at a mob trying to set fire to a house in the suburb of Asarwa. The Press Trust of India said police also fired on arsonists in Ahmedabad itself and on rioters in the town of Baroda, 120 miles south. It was not immediately known whether the police shootings caused any casualties in the three incidents.
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