It’s been three consecutive nights of unrest in Delhi, India. Muslim groups and Hindu on a clash as Muslims have their homes and even shops targeted by angry mobs. 18 people were lost to the cold arms of death following the bloody violence which is the deadliest ever seen by the Indian capital in decades. Several people were also injured.
According to officials at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, the injured people are 189 in number. The hospital is currently facing a high pour in severely injured individuals, most of whom came in with gunshot wounds. Eyewitnesses testified to seeing mobs walk the streets with guns, shooting and spraying bullets from rooftops.
Delhi high court ordered that all injured persons were taken to the hospital and given proper health care to savage their lives. The violence which started on Sunday is a result of people who don’t seem to have a common ground over a citizenship law that turned out to be controversial.
The Muslim group, however, are suffering the most for it as the violence is centred on the Muslim-Majority neighbourhood in north-east Delhi. Mosques are being burnt down.
On Tuesday a crescent was violently been torn apart from the top of the minaret.“Two young men were picking up the pages torn pages and putting them in plastic bags,” Faisal Mohammed from BBC stated. Mobs on the street have made men pull down their trousers to check if they are circumcised or not.
This will help them confirm their religion before violently attacking them. Muslim men are usually circumcised while Hindu men are not. Following this development, a photojournalist was asked by the mobs to pull down his trousers.
This unrest has caused schools in close areas to the violent like schools around Loni borders to be shut with their exams postponed.Ms. Randhawa the spokesman of Delhi police, police have been sent out to control the mobs and the situation is under control.
Although people in Delhi stated that the police were not only underprepared but they are also not enough to take on the swarm of angry mobs. Donald Trump who was visiting India for the first time to be hosted by Minister Narendra Modi the prime minister of India had his visit overshadowed by the unrest.