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Over 25,000 victims take shelter at Gujarat relief camps

An estimated 25,000 people, rendered homeless in the communal frenzy after the Godhra carnage in Gujarat, are taking shelter at relief camps set up by Non Governmental Organisations in Ahmedabad and other parts of the state.

The biggest relief camp accommodating about 6000 victims has been set up at Shahalam in Ahmedabad.

Almost another 7000 people are taking shelter at relief camps at Dudheshwar, Kalupur, Juhapur, Dariapur and Sarkhed.

Ataullagh Khan, a social worker from Dudheshwar, said that the victims of the communal violence had mostly come from the Naroda, Naroda Patia, Sabarmati, Meghaninagar, Chamanpura areas.

A H Pathan, an official at the Shahalam collector's office, said that a team of doctors from the Civil Hospital has provided medical aid to the affected persons taking shelter at the relief camps.

Pathan said that the civil supplies department has also provided some 50 bags of rice and 50 bags of wheat.

The weeklong violence in parts of the state has so far claimed 607 lives, injured scores of others and left a trail of destruction with ravaged shops and houses.

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