Two casualties in Mangaluru take death toll from protest-related violence to seven.
Authorities shut down the internet in parts of northern India and imposed a curfew in a southern city after two people died in clashes between police and stone-throwing protesters, angered by a citizenship law that discriminates against Muslims.
A police spokesman said today 20 officers were injured in the clashes in Mangaluru, and a curfew had been imposed there until Sunday midnight. Awanish Kumar Awasthi, the state official issuing the order, said the move was aimed at preventing the spread of inflammatory material that could worsen the law and order situation. Police in Uttar Pradesh also detained around 100 suspected troublemakers.
The new law makes it easier for people from non-Muslim minorities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who settled in India prior to 2015 to obtain Indian citizenship.
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