HYDERABAD : Hours after city police commissioner R P Singh claimed that normalcy was fast returning to the Old City and curfew could be lifted from Friday, fresh riots broke out in Kulsumpura and Mangalhat police station limits of West Zone on Wednesday night.

 

Four persons sustained stab wounds and head injuries when rioters attacked them late in the evening. The injured have been rushed to the Osmania General Hospital for treatment.

 

According to eye witnesses, the rioters came in four auto rickshaws and pelted stones indiscriminately near a toddy compound in Jiyaguda at around 9.30 pm. Residents and shop keepers shut the doors out of fear, while passersby tried to escape into lanes and bylanes.

 

Police forces were rushed to the spot and dispersed the mob. The situation is now under control, Singh said.