CALICUT, INDIA, May 4, 2003: More than 60 people are under arrest in a south Indian fishing village, after nine fishermen were killed and more than 20 people injured. The victims who died in the attack in the state of Kerala, were all Hindus. Marad had been tense since January last year, when five people, including four Muslims, died in communal violence. The Kerala coast has a volatile mix of Muslim, Hindu and Christian fishing communities, most very poor and living very close to one another. Competition between them is heightened by dwindling fish stocks, and they no longer share the same boats.
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