FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law, in Ahmedabad, India, December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave
NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Six people died and dozens were injured on Friday as Indian police clashed with thousands of protesters who again took to the streets in several parts of the country to oppose a new law they say discriminates against Muslims.
There were standoffs at police barricades in half a dozen towns in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, which has long been a tinderbox of communal tensions between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.
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