الهند: الهندوس يحرقون المسلمين أحياء وتجدد العنف الطائفي

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أدَّى تجدد العنف الطائفي في "مظفر نجار" بولاية "بهار" الهندية إلى قيام الهندوس بشن حملة من الاعتداءات على الأسر المسلمة، وحرق بعضهم أحياء؛ مما أدَّى لوفاة نحو 3 مسلمين، علاوة على تدمير 10 منازل، وحرق 15 مركبة.

وقد زعمت الجهات الأمنية أن التوترات تجددت نتيجة اكتشاف جثة شاب هندوسي زعمت أسرته أن أسرة فتاة مسلمة قامت بقتله رفضًا لعلاقتهما المشبوهة؛ مما دفع الهندوس للاحتشاد والتسلح واقتحام منازل المسلمين من أهالي الفتاة، واصطحابهم أحياء، وقتل الجاني المزعوم، وغيره من أفراد الأسرة.

وعلى الفور تدخلت قوات الأمن لمنع تفاقم الأوضاع، وقامت باعتقال 9 أفراد وملاحقة آخرين من المتورطين في العنف. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Police have arrested nine people after a mob torched a house and burnt to death three men thought to be Muslims in an outbreak of communal violence in northern India, an official said Monday.

Police in riot gear were patrolling a village where Sunday's hours-long rampage and attack occurred in Bihar state, with tensions still high between the majority Hindu and minority Muslim communities.

The attack was triggered by the discovery of the body of a teenage Hindu boy, allegedly murdered by family members of a Muslim girl who objected to the pair's suspected relationship.

"We have identified the attackers and nine accused have been arrested," said Paras Nath, inspector general of police in Muzaffarpur district.

"The hunt is on for others. Three persons were burnt alive," Nath told Agence France Presse.

"One accused in the murder of the teenage boy has also been arrested," he added.

The body of 19-year-old Bhartendu Kumar was discovered Saturday in his native village of Saraiya, 102 kilometres (64 miles) from the state capital Patna, after he disappeared days earlier.

A mob armed with sticks and other sharp weapons attacked the house of one of the people suspected by Kumar's family of kidnapping and murdering him, police said.

Rioters set his house on fire, killing three residents, thought to belong to the Muslim community and injuring two others.

Police said 10 adjoining houses were also gutted and 15 vehicles damanged in the violence, which lasted for four hours on Sunday morning.