Ten people were killed when fresh violence erupted in India's western state of Gujarat where continuing sectarian bloodshed has claimed more than 900 lives, police said today.
Four people killed in the Dhani Limda area of Gujarat's commercial capital Ahmedabad yesterday included a four-year old boy who was trampled to death in a stampede, a police spokesman said.
Another person was stabbed to death and one man was beaten and then set on fire by a mob. Two more people died in police firing.
At least 20 shops and many more houses were torched by a 2,000-strong mob after two days of relative calm.
The violence continued this , with two people pulled from the bicycles and stabbed to death in Ahmedabad.
In Gujarat's Panchmahal district, 10 people were injured when a bomb exploded inside a bus at the Lonavala bus stand.
The riots in Gujarat were sparked by the torching of a train carrying Hindu activists in the town of Godhra on February 27.
Today the upper house of India's parliament unanimously passed an opposition-sponsored motion urging federal intervention to curb the bloodletting in the state.
The fresh violence came as India's most celebrated police official, KPS Gill, visited several parts of Ahmedabad after being appointed security adviser to Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Gill gained his reputation as a "supercop" after putting down a bloody Sikh separatist campaign in 1992 that had claimed the lives of around 50,000 people in the northern state of Punjab since 1983.