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[India
News]: NEW DELHI : - The burning of a train that triggered India's
worst religious riots in a decade was caused by an "accidental fire"
and not by a suspected Muslim mob as first charged, a government
investigation said on Monday.
Fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, died
when a carriage caught alight in Godhra in Gujarat in February, 2002,
an incident blamed on a Muslim mob and which triggered the revenge
slaughter of more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims.
Human rights groups put the death toll at more than 2,500.
The communist-backed coalition that ousted India's
Hindu-nationalist government last May set up a panel to probe the
incident because of doubts over the real cause of the fire.
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