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136 dead in two days of violence in Gujarat: CM

One hundred and thirty-six persons have died and 1137 arrested in the two days of violence that has hit Gujarat following the attack on passengers of the Sabarmati Express in Godhra on Wednesday.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi said that, of these, 119 persons had died in Ahmedabad alone.

Addressing mediapersons in Ahmedabad, he said that the police had fired 311 rounds, all over the state, to control arsonists and rioters.

Seventeen persons were killed in the police firing, Modi added.

The chief minister said that curfew had been imposed in 14 districts and that Ahmedabad and Baroda witnessed the maximum mayhem.

He also referred to Thursday night's incident in which an entire housing society was set on fire by rampaging mobs clarifying that the toll in that incident was 18.

Ehsan Jaffri, a former Congress member of Parliament, and several members of his family were among the dead.

Earlier reports had put the toll at 30.

Modi also said that Jaffri had fired in the air with a personal weapon when confronted by the mob.

This, he said, had further incensed the mob.

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