Low-caste groups protesting the desecration of their leader's statue burned train cars and clashed with police at several places in western India on Thursday, in violence that left at least two people dead and 40 injured, police said. The violence came after a statue of B. R. Ambedkar, one of India's prominent freedom fighters and a leader of low-caste people, was damaged in the northern Indian city of Kanpur on Wednesday. At least two people were killed Wednesday, said P.S. Pasricha, police chief of western Maharashtra state. As the violence escalated, 40 people were injured in clashes with police. The Press Trust of India news agency, however, put the death toll at six and the number of injured at 60.
