A man is beaten during a clash between people supporting a new citizenship law and those opposing the law in New Delhi, India, February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiNEW DELHI: The death toll rose to 13 on Tuesday , with at least 150 injured, from some of the Indian capital's worst sectarian violence in years as rampaging rioters in several parts of the city set fire to buildings and vehicles, and attacked journalists.
The Press Trust of India later cited hospital officials as saying more than 200 people had been hurt, around one-quarters of them police. The capital's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who visited the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, earlier pleaded for the"madness to stop", according to PTI. "Since yesterday, we've been calling the police to enforce a curfew, to send reinforcements," Saurabh Sharma, a student from a riot-hit area who took his injured friend to the hospital, told AFP."The protesters are attacking police wherever they are present and clashing among each other where the police aren't there," Senior policeman Alok Kumar told AFP earlier Tuesday.
At Jaffrabad, one of the poorest neighbourhoods on the fringes of Delhi and home to shanty colonies, an AFP reporter saw locals turn off their lights and lock their doors amid a massive police presence.
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