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Namaz v/s puja clashes in India leave four dead
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MURSHIDABAD: Four persons were killed, including two in police firing, as communal clashes broke out on Friday at a village in Beldanga in Murshidabad district. Several people were missing after the clash and about 15 houses and 20 shops were set on fire by rampaging mobs. Curfew had to be imposed in the area. 

The incident came just before India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's scheduled visit here on Sunday. Tension has been brewing in Jhaubona high school in Beldanga between Hindus and Muslims over holding of namaz and Saraswati puja on the premises. About a year ago, Muslim students objected to Saraswati puja being held in the school and it had to be abandoned. Similarly, a long-standing demand from the Muslim community to allow students to hold namaz on the school premises was being blocked by Hindus.

15 July  2009
 

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