TRAGIC RIOTS
HINDUS AND MOSLEMS SACRIFICE OF A COW FRENZIED MOB VIOLENCE I LOOTING AND INCENDIARISM I s By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Received March So, 5.5 p.m.) ! CALCUTTA. March 29 Eight people were killed, including one woman, and scores were injured in a riot between Hindus and Moslems at Ajodhya, sacred city of the Hindus, on the banks of the Gogra, in the United Provinces. The city was in the hands of a j' frenzied mob for more than four hours. Then police reinforcements arrived from Lucknow, 84 miles away. The trouble started over Moslems in I ■ the neighbouring village of Shalijahan- • pur, at the festival of Bakrid, sacrificI. ing a cow, that animal being sacred in Hindu eyes. Hindus stormed and looted the village and burned the Moslems' houses. Many people are reported to have been injured in a similar clash in the „• village of Atmakur, in the Kurnool district. Madras.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21763, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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