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Sinhalese, Muslims clash in Sri Lanka, one killed, 21 injured

Associated PressColombo, October 30

Muslims and Sinhalese fought each other in the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday,

leaving one dead and 21 people injured, a senior Interior Ministry official

said. Several houses and vehicles were burned and mobs threw stones at each

other and at the police, who used tear gas and fired rubber bullets.Police

arrested 55 people and imposed a daylong curfew in the Maligawatte

neighbourhood in Colombo, where the violence started with a dispute over

construction of a mosque adjoining a Buddhist temple, the official said on

condition of anonymity.Sinhalese, who comprise the majority of the island

nation's 18.6 million people, are mostly Buddhists. Muslims number about 1.3

million.The dead man was a Muslim and the injured included 15 Muslims and six

Sinhalese, said Pushpa Soysa, a spokeswoman of the hospital where the injured

were being treated. Four of the injured were hit by rubber bullets.Clashes

between Muslims and the mostly Buddhist Sinhalese are rare in Sri Lanka.Most

violence occurs between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority. More

than 64,500 people have been killed in a civil war between government forces

and Tamil Tiger rebels fighting for a separate homelands in the north and east.

 

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