81. When the army was finally deployed in Ahmedabad last Friday, they were faced with rampaging Hindu mobs surrounding Muslim commercial and residential areas of the city. 82. Police officials said the death toll was sure to rise as bodies were still being recovered from remote Muslim villages that had been attacked and burned by Hindu mobs. 83. Police said there were also reports of Hindu mobs attacking mosques in the town of Baroda. 84. She blamed the attack on a Hindu mob. 85. Several Moslem families fled the western Indian town of Pen after Hindu mobs went on a rampage for a second day, a newspaper reported Saturday. 86. Security sources have confirmed eyewitness accounts of police not only standing by while Hindu mobs went on the rampage, but actually orchestrating or contributing to the unrest. 87. The army had to be deployed to contain the violence which spread across the state, as Hindu mobs went on the rampage, burning Muslim homes and businesses. 88. The backlash that followed saw Hindu mobs rampaging through cities and towns across the state, burning, looting and killing Muslims in their homes. 89. The army was deployed when it became clear that the state police were either unable or unwilling to control the Hindu mobs. 90. The assassination sparked anti-Sikh riots in the capital here, in which Hindu mobs killed thousands of Sikhs. |
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