Hundreds of troops have been deployed to halt deadly clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India. Source: AAP
HUNDREDS of Indian troops have been deployed to quell clashes between Hindus and Muslims sparked by the killing of three villagers who had objected when a young woman was being harassed.
Nine people were killed, including an Indian broadcast journalist and a police photographer, when the two groups set upon each other with guns and knives in Kawal village, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
The violence quickly spread to neighbouring villages in Muzaffarnagar district on Saturday night.
"A curfew has been imposed in three riot-hit areas of Muzaffarnagar," said the head of the state's home ministry, RM Srivastava.
"The situation is still very tense, but under control."
Soldiers were going door to door to search for weapons.
A state of high alert was declared for the entire state of Uttar Pradesh, which has a population of 200 million people.
The clashes broke out on Saturday after thousands of Hindu farmers held a meeting in Kawal to demand justice in the August 27 killing of three men who had spoken out when a woman was being verbally harassed.
The state's minority welfare minister, Mohammad Azam Khan, said some at the meeting gave provocative speeches calling for Muslims to be killed.
The farmers were attacked as they were returning home after the meeting, senior police official Arun Kumar said.
"The attack seemed well planned," Kumar said.
"Some were armed with rifles and sharp-edged weapons."
Gunfire was reported from several areas of the village.
Within hours clashes broke out in neighbouring villages, Kumar said.
A leader from the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party said tensions had been simmering since the three men were killed August 27 in a tea shop.
"Had the killers been arrested, the situation might not have gone out of hand," Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
Uttar Pradesh was at the heart of some of India's worst communal clashes in December 1992, after a Hindu mob razed the 16th-century Babri mosque in Ayodhya.
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