New Delhi: After the blasts that rocked Malegaon in Maharashtra on Monday night, communal clashes have broken out in Thane.
One person has died in the clashes.
More than 50 people - two of them critical - were injured in the clashes that broke out at Rabodi over the setting up of a pandal (tent) for the Navaratri festival, police said.
There was a dispute over the issue of erecting a pandal for the festival beginning today in the locality neighbouring Mumbai, according to the police.
Members of a particular community alleged that the pandal encroached over their area. The local mandal (group), organising the event, however, insisted that the pandal would be put up as per the last year's specifications resulting in the clashes, police said.
Despite the fact that Section 144 has been imposed in the area, stone pelting on many vehicles is continuing in some pockets.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil visited violence-struck Thane, as well as the hospital where the victims have been admitted.
Violence in Malegaon
Malegaon too was rocked by violence in the aftermath of the blasts in which four persons were killed and more than 70 others injured in the busy Bhikhu Chowk area.
Six policemen, including Additional Superintendent of Police Viresh Prabhu, were injured in stone-pelting by a mob soon after the blast. Two other persons were also injured in the stone-pelting.
The blast created panic in the communally sensitive powerloom town in Nashik district, police said.
(With inputs from PTI)
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