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Three killed in fresh violence in India’s Muzaffarnagar
Three people have been killed in fresh violence in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which was hit by religious riots last month.
Early reports described the violence as a religious clash, but Muzzafarnagar police superintendent Hari Narayan Singh said that the violence was triggered by a "family dispute".
Three Muslim men were beaten to death while another was injured in clashes between local Muslim and Hindu communities at Muhammadpurraisingh village, senior local official Kaushal Raj said.
Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, saw serious Hindu-Muslim riots in 1992 after the demolition of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya by hardline Hindus.
Locals said that some political parties have accused each other of trying to polarise the communities along religious lines ahead of next year's general elections.
More than 60 people died in the Hindu-Muslim clashes which erupted on 7 September in the town of Muzaffarnagar.
The riots were described as the worst in India in a decade.
