Muzaffarnagar:
Four people, including a woman, were killed in two different incidents in the Muzaffarnagar district of western Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday evening.
In the first incident, an argument over a land dispute between people belonging to two villages is reported to have turned ugly, leading to the violence that led to the killing of three people. Seven people have been arrested so far.
Police said the dead belonged to Hussainpur village while the accused belonged to Mohammedpur village, less than two km away. The agricultural land of the two villages share a common boundary. The situation is tense but under control, authorities said.
Senior police and district administration officials reached the spot and are trying to prevent the violence from spilling over to the neighbouring areas.
In the second incident, a woman was killed after she and her husband were attacked while returning from a doctor's visit near the Hussainpur village.
Muzaffarnagar is yet to recover from communal clashes last month in which over 50 people lost their lives and nearly 45,000 people were forced to take shelter in relief camps.
The clashes, which erupted in the aftermath of the killing of three men in August - two Jats and one Muslim boy - spiraled as incendiary speeches by politicians and rumours fed the simmering tension between the two communities.
Three MLAs were arrested and half a dozen others were booked for inciting the violence, which is being investigated by a one-member judicial commission.