04-01-2007, 08:59 PM
Here comes Shia Sunni riots in Lucknow - Iraq effect
<b>Curfew clamped after clash over Milad-un-Nabi procession</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Age-old differences between two sects of the Muslim community once again led to violence in various parts of the old city on the occasion of Eid Milad-un-Nabi on Sunday.
An angry mob belonging to a particular sect set two shops afire and damaged a shopping complex owned by a cleric in the old city. About a dozen persons were critically injured in the group clash. The injured included policemen too.
<b>Four youths also suffered bullet injuries. Condition of two of them was stated to be critical.</b>
The procession of Madh-e-Sahaba had to be stopped thrice -- at Aminabad, Medical College and near Bazar Khala police station -- to avoid any untoward incident. However, it concluded later in the evening at the Eidgaah.
Curfew was clamped on the Daulatganj area of Thakurganj, from where the violence started, and Chowk.
Laxity on part of the district administration and the police led to the violence as the officials allegedly failed to deploy adequate force taking note of past incidents.
<b>The trouble started at around 8.40 am when members of one of the sects carrying flags joined the main procession at Musahibganj locality. As they moved ahead raising slogans, people from the other sect objected to carrying of the flags, which led to a verbal dual. The groups later entered into fisticuffs and engaged in brickbatting. A few even opened fired.</b>
A free-for-all situation ensued for the next half-an-hour as there was no adequate force to tame the rioters. Station officer (SO) Thakurganj along with a few of his men initially tried to handle the situation but they had to beat a hasty retreat after the rioters pelted stones on them.
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<b>Curfew clamped after clash over Milad-un-Nabi procession</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Age-old differences between two sects of the Muslim community once again led to violence in various parts of the old city on the occasion of Eid Milad-un-Nabi on Sunday.
An angry mob belonging to a particular sect set two shops afire and damaged a shopping complex owned by a cleric in the old city. About a dozen persons were critically injured in the group clash. The injured included policemen too.
<b>Four youths also suffered bullet injuries. Condition of two of them was stated to be critical.</b>
The procession of Madh-e-Sahaba had to be stopped thrice -- at Aminabad, Medical College and near Bazar Khala police station -- to avoid any untoward incident. However, it concluded later in the evening at the Eidgaah.
Curfew was clamped on the Daulatganj area of Thakurganj, from where the violence started, and Chowk.
Laxity on part of the district administration and the police led to the violence as the officials allegedly failed to deploy adequate force taking note of past incidents.
<b>The trouble started at around 8.40 am when members of one of the sects carrying flags joined the main procession at Musahibganj locality. As they moved ahead raising slogans, people from the other sect objected to carrying of the flags, which led to a verbal dual. The groups later entered into fisticuffs and engaged in brickbatting. A few even opened fired.</b>
A free-for-all situation ensued for the next half-an-hour as there was no adequate force to tame the rioters. Station officer (SO) Thakurganj along with a few of his men initially tried to handle the situation but they had to beat a hasty retreat after the rioters pelted stones on them.
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