Multiple casualties reported as violence over mosque erupts in India

Magda Gheorghiță

Protesters have clashed with police in Uttar Pradesh amid tensions over a site claimed by the Hindu community Four people were killed and a number of others, including 24 police and administrative officers, were injured in violent clashes on Sunday in Sambhal in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The violence broke out as the authorities were carrying out a court-ordered survey of a 16th-century mosque at the center of a legal battle over claims that it was built on the site of a Hindu