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Indian police arrest nine after 'Muslim men' burnt alive

Burnt wreckage of vehicles, set on fire by a rioting mob, are seen in front of a charred house at Sareya village in Muzaffarpur district of India's northern Bihar state on January 19, 2015

Police have arrested nine people after a mob torched a house and burnt to death three men thought to be Muslims in an outbreak of communal violence in northern India, an official said Monday.

Police in riot gear were patrolling a village where Sunday's hours-long rampage and attack occurred in Bihar state, with tensions still high between the majority Hindu and minority Muslim communities.

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