In the early hours of Monday, on a train bound for Mumbai, India’s commercial capital, a police officer took up his service rifle, fatally shot his superior and then killed three unarmed passengers.
All three of the passengers were Muslim men, according to Indian news reports.
The violence occurred on the same day as a march led by a Hindu nationalist organization in one of the few northern Indian districts in which Muslims are a majority.
The rally, which a Hindu vigilante wanted in the murders of several Muslims had promised to join, dissolved into street fighting, which then gave way to a full-blown riot that spread toward Delhi.
As shops, vehicles and a mosque were set ablaze, at least five people were killed, including the mosque’s junior imam, the police said.
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