EIGHTEEN INJURED
HINDUS AND MOSLEMS. COWS TO SACRIFICE IN MOSQUE. KNIVES AND STICKS USED. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) CALCUTTA, April 6. Eighteen were injured in clashes between Hindus and Moslems at Behala, a suburb of Calcutta, in connection with the Moslem, festival of Bakarid. A dispute arose over Moslems taking two cows to a mosque for sacrifice, to which Hindus and Sikhs objected. The belligerents attacked each other with knives and sticks and stones. The riot was eventually quelled by the police.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 151, 7 April 1933, Page 5
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