Violence broke out in several parts of the old city, leaving 36 persons injured and 14 vehicles damaged on Sunday. Tension escalated as incidents of stone pelting and attacks on passersby on the roads were reported in many areas even as police forces tried to quell the trouble.
Saturday night's simmering tension over a clash between two communities for putting up flags at a religious place in Moosabowli spread to other areas in the old city on Sunday. Police fired teargas shells at Shamsheergunj to control rampaging mobs.
City Police Commissioner A.K. Khan told reporters later that the violence was pre-planned and well organised. Seventy persons were also taken into custody.
Additional police forces, including Quick Reaction Teams, Andhra Pradesh Special Police and Rapid Action Forces were deployed in the sensitive areas, he said. The injured were treated as out-patients at Osmania General Hospital. Earlier in the day, mobs set afire a shop and two wheelers at Gowliguda Kaman. A cowshed was also torched at Shamsheergunj. Panic gripped old city residents following rumours of communal clashes and places of worship being attacked spread through SMSes.
Source : http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/29/stories/2010032959330100.htm
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