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2 more killed in Solapur

Mumbai Oct. 12. One person was killed in police firing and another stabbed to death today, taking the toll to seven, as arson and rioting continued for the second consecutive day in the textile town of Solapur in Maharashtra despite the imposition of curfew.

``Police opened fire to quell the rioting mob killing one person and injuring two others,'' the Maharashtra Minister of State for Home, Manikrao Thakre, told PTI over telephone. Another person was stabbed to death and miscreants continued to torch shops and business establishments.

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