Four more deaths as Delhi violence toll rises to 17

A burnt-out vehicle is pictured following clashes between people supporting and opposing a contentious amendment to India`s citizenship law, in New Delhi on 26 February 2020. Photo: AFP
A burnt-out vehicle is pictured following clashes between people supporting and opposing a contentious amendment to India`s citizenship law, in New Delhi on 26 February 2020. Photo: AFP

Four more people have died in some of the worst sectarian violence in decades in New Delhi, a hospital source told AFP, which takes the death toll from several days of rioting to 17.

Protests against a contentious citizenship law on Sunday descended Monday and Tuesday into running battles between Hindus and Muslims, with rioters armed with stones, swords and even guns out in force.