World IN BRIEF : INDIA : Town Sealed Off to Hindu Militants
Nearly 250,000 troops and police sealed off the northern Indian town of Ayodhya to thousands of Hindu militants bent on building a temple to replace a mosque on what the Hindus say is one of their holy sites. Police in Uttar Pradesh state said the troops were deployed in a 65-mile radius around the town to prevent the militants from marching in behind leaders of the Hindu revivalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Troops were also on standby in 26 of the 63 districts of Uttar Pradesh to prevent more Hindu-Muslim clashes in a conflict that has already claimed scores of lives.
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