BOMBAY, Nov 21 (Reuters) - A bomb attack on a mosque in western India injured 21 people on Friday, triggering sporadic violence as angry crowds set fire to shops and vehicles, police said.
Police in the town of Parbhani, nearly 500 km (310 miles) east of India's financial capital Bombay, had earlier said seven people had been injured. They said a curfew had been imposed to try to curb the violence.
"The situation is tense and mobs are setting fire to shops and vehicles and throwing stones in the main market area," Parbhani police official S.S. Khandare told Reuters by telephone.
11/21/03 06:36 ET
Looks like someone wanted to incite the local Muslims. Notice - small explosion, few injured, Friday prayers. It looks like Islamic terrorists wanted to inflame the mob.