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| Police arrest 3 Hindus for blast in western India |
| 2008-10-25 |
| Police have arrested three Hindus on suspicion of planting a bomb that killed five people in a market crowded with Muslim shoppers last month, an official said Friday. Public prosecutor R.J. Misar said the two men and one woman were suspected of planting a crude bomb on a motorcycle that killed five people and wounded 30 others on Sept. 30. The blast in Malegaon, 180 miles northeast of Mumbai, went off as Muslims were shopping, ahead of breaking their Ramadan fast. Malegaon has long been the scene of violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims, who make up 75 percent of the town's 500,000 residents. A chief judicial magistrate ordered them held until Nov. 3. Relations between Hindus, who make up more than 80 percent of India's population, and Muslims, who account for about 130 million of India's 1.1 billion people, have been relatively peaceful since the bloody partition of the subcontinent into India and Muslim Pakistan at independence from Britain in 1947. But there have been sporadic bouts of violence and distrust runs deep between the communities in some parts of the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |