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A youth has died and at least six were injured when celebrations over India's win against Pakistan in the cricket World Cup turned violent. The trouble flared in the riot-scarred western Indian state of Gujarat, which borders Pakistan, police said.
Gujarat was the scene of India's worst religious riots in a decade early last year in which nearly 1,000 people, most of them Muslims, died in a wave of revenge killings after a train arson attack left 59 Hindus dead. The youth died overnight in hospital after police fired on dozens of Hindus and Muslims who clashed late on Saturday in the Muslim old quarter of the main city, Ahmedabad. Two shops were set ablaze by the crowd. "One died in police firing and at least six were hurt in stone-pelting but the situation's normal now," the official said. In the industrial town of Baroda, 70 miles south of Ahmedabad, youths hurled stones from rooftops at 150 fans staging a victory parade. Nobody was injured. Matches between India and Pakistan, which have gone to war three times, twice over disputed Kashmir, traditionally create a charged atmosphere and have often led to clashes in Gujarat.
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