Ahmedabad: One person was charred to death and six others injured following fresh communal flare up in the sensitive Kalupur and Dariapur areas of the walled city tonight (November 9) prompting the authorities to impose curfew.

While the person and his scooter was burnt by the rampaging mob six others were injured in stabbing and stone throwing incidents, police said in Ahmedabad.

Initial reports were that two persons were killed, one burnt and one stabbed, but after thorough verification it was clarified that only one person was killed in the incident while the other who was stabbed is recuperating at the V S Hospital, Joint Commissioner of Police (Sector 1), P C Thakur told reporters.

However, the man who was burnt by a frenzied mob near the Kalupur tower along with his scooter was yet to be identified.

Three persons were taken to a private hospital for injuries sustained in stone throwing while three others were being treated at V S hospital, including one for stab injuries, hospital sources said.

The situation was fully under control at present but indefinite curfew had to be imposed in the area as a precautionary measure.

Police lobbed several tear gas shells to quell the rioting mobs of both communities.

Thakur said the exact cause of the fresh communal flare up is not known yet but reports indicated that a rumour after the stabbing of one person in minority dominated Juhapura area of the city earlier in the day sparked off the trouble.

PTI