Fresh sectarian violence erupts in India

Police shot dead one person in the main city in India's western state of Gujarat when they opened fire to disperse clashing mobs…

Police shot dead one person in the main city in India's western state of Gujarat when they opened fire to disperse clashing mobs of Hindus and Muslims.

Religious violence erupted in Gujarat in February after a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu devotees, killing 58 of them. The revenge killings and clashes that followed killed more than 700 people, mostly Muslims.

The clash last night in Ahmedabad coincided with the death of a woman burned in her home in an incident in a town north of the city on Monday.

Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, meanwhile, summoned Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the federal capital New Delhi to provide an update on developments in the state.

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One person was killed and six injured in the eastern part of Ahmedabad when police fired to disperse mobs of Hindus and Muslims pelting stones at each other.

A 75-year-old woman died of burns sustained when a mob set fire to her house in Viramgam.

The February violence coincided with a dispute between Hindus and Muslims over plans to build a Hindu temple at the site of a mosque razed by Hindu hardliners in northern India in 1992.

There have been no widespread clashes between the two groups outside the state.