Brutality of HinduMuslim riot emerges

NEW DELHI » As the Mustafabad neighborhood of India’s capital was ravaged by communal riots for three days this week, the Al-Hind Hospital turned from a community clinic into a trauma ward. Almost a week after the clashes between Hindus and Muslims began, a picture of the horrors inflicted during New Delhi’s worst communal riots in decades has begun to emerge. Before President Donald Trump’s first state visit to India last Sunday, Hindus and Muslims in the Indian capital charged at each other with homemade guns and crude weapons, leaving the streets where the rioting occurred resembling a war zone, with houses, shops, mosques, schools and vehicles up in flames. At least 42 people were killed and hundreds more wounded.