AHMADABAD, INDIA, May 30, 2002: A Muslim bus driver was dragged out of his bus and burned alive, and a Hindu man was killed in a bomb blast, police said Thursday, as violence resumed in western India, where nearly 1,000 people have died in three months of Hindu-Muslim clashes. Both men were killed Wednesday night in Kadi, about 30 miles south of Ahmadabad, the commercial capital of western Gujarat state. The renewed violence comes a day after four bombs exploded in Ahmadabad, injuring at least 39 people, some of them seriously. The unrest in Gujarat — the worst religious clashes in India in a decade — had ebbed in the last two weeks. The violence began Feb. 27, when a Muslim crowd burned a train car, killing 60 Hindus, mostly women and children, and setting off reprisals by Hindu mobs.
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