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Situation under control in Shahpur Friday, August 31, 2001

PTI
AHMEDABAD: The situation in Nagoriwad locality of Shahpur area in the city where one person was killed on Wednesday night when police opened fire to disperse rival groups, was tense but under control Thursday, police said.

Senior police officers were monitoring the situation and additional policemen have been deployed in the area, they said adding the cause of the clash was yet to be ascertained.

Police lobbed 20 teargas shells to disperse the stone-pelting groups in the Walled City area. But when teargas failed to bring the situation under control, police opened fire in which one youth died.

One security personnel was injured in stone pelting, they said.

Parts of the city had been rocked by violence, since August 24, that claimed two lives, prompting the authorities to impose curfew in Dariapur on Saturday, which was lifted on Monday.

News Source : The Times Of India News Service [ Lightning News ]

 

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