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Troops clear Hindus from mosque site

Unrest across India continues: 400 killed
NEW DELHI, Dec 8: With more than 400 people already dead In Hindu-Muslim riots, Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao Tuesday Faced a new threat — a Hindu backlash against his decision to rebuild the mosque destroyed by 1I Indu radicals, reports AP.
In a rare step, the government ■ empowered security forces to shoot rioters on sight Bombay and Bhopal, cities which witnessed large-scale violence.
Unrest continued for a second day only slightly abated in most of India's 32 states and territories, news agencies said.
In a day of swift developments, police in New Delhi and the temple town of Ayodhya arrested the top leaders of the powerful Hindu nationalist opposition, accusing
them of inciting sectarian violence.
Federal troops also cleared Hindu extremists and holy men from the ruins of the mosque in the northeastern city of Ayodhya that they demolished on Sunday, where they already had begun building a temple.
The Iranian government summoned the Indian ambassador in Teheran to press demands for the reconstruction of the 16th-century Babri mosque. Hindu emotions ran high in India after reports that thousands of Muslims tn neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh attacked Hindu properties and burned dozens of temples to the ground.
The government censored photographs from a burning
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temple In Pakistan to avoid further inflaming tempers. The state television also refused to broadcast film shot Sunday In Ayodhya of the invasion of the mosque.
Soldiers .patrolled streets of a dozen towns across the country assisting civilian police. An estimated 10 million people, living tn dozens of towns, spent a second day indoors under curfew.
LK Advani and Murii Manohar Joshi. leaders of the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party were detained at dawn at their homes and put under house arrest in a government guest house.
This is a repressive measure. We have not indulged in any act of violence,' Advani told reporters as he was led
He also condemned the decision to rebuild the moaoua and to outlaw religious fundamentalist organizations, calling them "Provocative. myopic and repressive steps."