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...belatedly visited the western state of Gujarat. The violence began in Godhra a month ago when a Muslim mob set fire to a train, killing 60 Hindu activists, provoking revenge attacks of murder, arson and looting. On the eve of the visit five Muslims died when their homes near Ahmedabad were torched. Vajpayee told victims that the failure of the local administration to prevent the violence would be investigated...
INDIA The Return of Sectarian Violence Nearly 60 hindus were burned alive Wednesday on a train returning from a disputed holy site at Ayodhya. A stone-throwing crowd, thought to be Muslims, stopped the train outside Godhra and set it alight. Hindus in Ahmedabad set Muslim businesses, shops and houses on fire. Muslims died inside their homes or were attacked in the streets. Violence spread, and despite a heavy troop presence the death toll in Gujarat state neared 350. Hindu activists want to build a temple at Ayodhya on the site of a mosque they destroyed 10 years...
...dead. Another 33,000 were injured, according to Gujarat officials. Villages near the quake's epicenter, a dry, barren region high above the Arabian Sea, were pulverized and all the more prostrate for their remoteness: help didn't get through until 24 hours after the quake struck. Ahmedabad, Gujarat's largest city with a population of 3.6 million people, and Bhuj, a walled city of 150,000 near Ground Zero, were hit hardest. In Bhuj, over 90% of the buildings were sledge-hammered by the quake, including the town's main hospital. Officials estimate 6,000 Bhuj residents were entombed...
...hands. For most of that day, rescue attempts were undertaken entirely by survivors and volunteers. By nightfall, desperation was setting in: where were the relief workers, the rescue equipment, the cranes so essential to lifting the rubble and sifting for survivors? Complained Vinod Trivedi, 52, an insurance worker in Ahmedabad: "Not even the Municipal Corporation has bothered to come. All of our work has been done without the help of heavy machinery." One exhausted volunteer from Mumbai said, "Some things even the human spirit cannot move with just two hands." Predicted Patrick Fuller from the International Federation...
...shattered neighborhoods. And we will pray for those that died." As severe aftershocks rumbled throughout the weekend, five battalions of the Indian army were airlifted to Gujarat along with teams of doctors and surgeons. At last week's end, Bhuj still remained cut off, with no electricity or telephones. Ahmedabad residents were camped in parks and on the sidewalks outside their damaged homes. In Pachchao, a village in the salt desert not far from the epicenter, Dawod Ismail Siddhi cried, "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been demolished." His sister Banu knelt...