Three persons were killed and nine injured, six of them seriously, when members of two communities indulged in firing and pelting stones, prompting the authorities to impose indefinite curfew in three police station areas in this communally sensitive city on Thursday.
State paramilitary forces along with a large number of police personnel have been deployed and patrolling intensified to maintain law and order, District Magistrate R K Singh said.
Indefinite curfew has been imposed in Kotwali, Delhi Gate and Sasni Gate police station areas in the old city following the clash during which the two sides hurled stones at each other and fired from rooftops following a dispute over a place of worship on Wednesday night, Singh said.
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