AHMEDABAD: Two persons, including an auto-rickshaw driver, were killed and eight others injured in renewed violence in two police station areas of the city on Monday, police said.
The auto-rickshaw driver, about 50-year-old, was stabbed when he was passing through the main road in Guptanagar locality of curfew-bound Vejalpur police station this noon, police said.
One person, who received bullet injuries in Juhapura, succumbed to his wounds at the municipal hospital, they said.
Eight others were hurt in stone-throwing, stabbing and police firing incidents.
A dozen houses and shops were either looted or set ablaze in Kumudi and Amaji localities in curfew bound Vejalpur police station area.
Police opened fire and lobbed several teargas shells to disperse the mobs indulging in arson and looting of shops and houses in the localities of the areas.
Police entered the minority-dominated localities and burst several teargas shells and resorted to firing to scare away the violent mobs in the curfew bound areas, police said.
An indefinte curfew continued in Vejalpur police station areas on the second day on Monday as the violence continued unabated, police added.
Curfew was imposed in the area on Sunday after violence broke out over detention of two persons in connection with criminal cases, resulting in death of one person and injuries to 30 others, eight of them in police firing.