Relatives of Muslim victims accused police of standing by as the Hindu mobs torched buildings and beat people. "The police told the healthcare workers that they wouldn't be able to provide them with protection from the rioters," he said. Shaleen Mitra, an adviser to Delhi's health minister, Satyender Jain, said police also blocked ambulances from evacuating the injured from a small, overcrowded private hospital in Mustafabad, a Muslim-majority area, to the larger public Guru Teg Bahadur hospital. One person hit me on the head with an axe," Akbar said.Īn unidentified man shows his injuries Tuesday amid clashes between Hindus and Muslims protesting a contentious new citizenship law, at Al-Hind hospital in New Delhi, India. "They pounced on me after and started beating me. Mohammad Akbar made it to the hospital with his head bleeding profusely after he was attacked early Wednesday.Īkbar, who is Muslim, said a Hindu mob forced him to chant the Hanuman chalisa, a Hindu devotional hymn dedicated to Lord Hanuman, a popular Hindu god. Those with head injuries were wheeled to the overcrowded emergency room. New patients continued to pour into the hospital on stretchers. The teenager said he was shot on his family's apartment terrace as he watched Hindu mobs enter his neighborhood. Mohammad Akram watched as his 17-year-old son was wheeled out of an operating theater after surgery for a bullet wound in his chest. The corridors of the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital at New Delhi's eastern border are often crowded, but on Wednesday hundreds thronged its wards as doctors worked through the night to treat injuries. The violence erupted between thousands demonstrating for and against the new citizenship law introduced by Modi's Hindu nationalist government.Ĭongress Party workers shout slogans as they burn an effigy of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a demonstration to protest against the violence occurring in New Delhi, in Amritsar on Wednesday. Sonia Gandhi, president of the opposition Congress party, called for the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah, who is directly responsible for law and order in the capital. Opposition calls for minister's resignation
Modi's appeal came after a storm of criticism from opposition parties of the government's failure to control the violence, despite the use of tear gas, pellets and smoke grenades. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times," Modi said in a tweet. "Peace and harmony are central to our ethos. Parts of the riot-hit areas were deserted.
Police and paramilitary forces patrolled the streets in far greater numbers on Wednesday.
Twenty people were killed and nearly 200 wounded in the violence, a doctor said, with many suffering gunshot wounds amid looting and arson attacks that coincided with a visit to India by U.S. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for calm on Wednesday after days of clashes between Hindus and minority Muslims over a controversial citizenship law in some of the worst sectarian violence in the capital in decades.
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