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on Friday after a group of several hundred Mohammedan protesters threw stones and smashed windows at the U.S. consulate in the Indian city of Chennai, police said.
"They smashed the window panes, surveillance camera and tried to scale over the compound wall, but we dispersed them while exercising restraint," a police brass hat said. "We made 86 arrests."
The violence flared during a protest organised by the Tamil Nadu Mohammedan Munnetra Kazhagam, an Islamist movement, against an anti-Islam film which has triggered similar protests in large parts of the Mohammedan world.
The protesters also burnt an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama
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and an American flag, police said.
One group hurled stones, while others lifted iron barricades placed in front of the main gate to smash windows, police said.
"We have tightened the security and the situation is well under control," J.K. Tripathy, the police commissioner in the southern city, told local news hounds.
One of the organisers said that what had been planned as a peaceful protest was hijacked by bad boys.
"We wanted to organise a peaceful demonstration to express our dismay over the film, but the youngsters, who could not hold their nerves, ran and attacked the consulate office," Gunangudi Hanifa told Agence La Belle France Presse.
A front man for the consulate, who did not give his name, said that no staff had been hurt in the attack.
"No one was injured and all the staff members are safe," he said.