Bharuch: Indefinite curfew was clamped in Taluka town of Jambusar in Bharuch on December 12 after communal violence erupted in the sensitive Tankaribhagal locality, prompting police to fire fifteen rounds to disperse stone-pelting mobs soon after polling ended for the Assembly elections in Gujarat.

Police said trouble arose over a petty issue after some miscreants tried to break a queue at a polling booth in the area.

The mobs set afire two shops and two handcarts of tea vendors and resorted to arson and stone-pelting, in which three persons sustained injuries, Bharuch district superintendent of police A V Vasava said.

Police fired fifteen rounds to disperse the mobs as bursting of teargas shells to control them proved ineffective.

No one was injured in the police firing and situation was under control, Vasava said.

Earlier, police had burst teargas shells to quell a crowd that tried to capture a booth in the town.

Director general of police K Chakravarthy said additional reinforcements have been rushed to Jambusar from Bharuch.

PTI