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Army stages flag march in Surat; toll rises to eight

Three army columns consisting 500-odd soldiers staged a flag march early on Sunday morning in nine curfew-bound police station areas of Surat, police sources said.

Police fired 64 rounds in the air till on Sunday morning to quell a frenzied mob, allegedly indulging in large-scale sporadic attacks, targeting mostly small and major textile units in the eastern parts of the city, they said.

Earlier, 322 tear-gas shells were lobbed by, police who also used 22 hand-grenades to disperse the mob. With the recovery of two more bodies late on Saturday night -- one found burnt and another stabbed -- from Udhna and Rander areas, the death toll in the post-Godhra carnage has risen to eight in the city, the police added.

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