Violent mobs clash with police in India, two dead
Protestors took to the streets in India's North-Eastern state of Assam as more and more people expressed their opposition to the government's new citizenship bill. The bill would give citizenships to non-Muslims who come to India from neighboring Muslim majority countries. The protests turned violent once the police fired live rounds into the crowd.
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