Religion Roundup
Police in Eastern India Fire on Hindu Mob
Associated Press
September 25, 2008
BHUBNESHWAR, India - Police in India have opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 angry Hindus attacking a police station, killing one person in a district wracked by a month of Hindu-Christian violence.
The mob, most of them women, surrounded the police station in a small town in Orissa state, demanding that police release two locals arrested in connection with recent Hindu-Christian clashes.
Police say they tried to convince the crowd to disperse, but the protesters pelted them with stones, injuring 12 officers. When batons and warning shots failed to disperse the crowd, police say they opened fire with live ammunition, killing one man and injuring another.
In the past month Hindu mobs have attacked Christian homes and churches in violence that's killed dozens of people and driven thousands from their homes.
India's prime minister meets with President Bush at the White House this afternoon.
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