Mob kills cleric in Gurugram, riot toll in Haryana 5

NT Bureau, Agencies

Gurugram/Chandigarh: Mobs killed a cleric in a late night attack on a mosque, torched an eatery and vandalised shops as communal violence that began in Haryana's Nuh spilled over into Gurugram, taking the death toll to five, police said on Tuesday.

A mob set fire to an under-construction mosque in Gurugram's sector 57 and shot dead the naib imam past Monday midnight.

And two more men succumbed to their injuries after the previous day's Nuh attack, which has claimed four lives.

Over 50 people, including 10 policemen, were injured in Mod in Nuh. Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar called the attack a part of a larger conspiracy, while the Vishva Hindu Parishad demanded a probe by the National Investigation Agency.

Authorities clamped a curfew Tuesday morning in Nuh. In many housing complexes in Gurugram, adjacent to the national capital, people were on edge. There were also unconfirmed reports that Muslim residents in some parts of the district were leaving their homes.