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Bangalore tense after Muslim riots

Jan. 22, 2007 at 11:28AM

More than 1,000 extra police officers patrolled the streets of Bangalore, India, on Monday after a weekend of deadly sectarian rioting.
      The violence began Friday in parts of the city with a large number of Muslim residents, angry over the Dec. 30 execution of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the Indo Asian News Service reported.
      Sunday, the demonstrations escalated and police fired on a mob that Bangalore Police Commissioner Achuta Rao said was setting fire to shops and buses, waving knives and throwing stones.
      A 12-year-old boy was killed and at least 22 other people were injured, Rao told the Indo Asian News Service.
      Two platoons of the military's Rapid Action Force were deployed to enforce a nighttime curfew and schools in the unsettled eastern part of the city were ordered closed until at least Tuesday, the report said.
     
     

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