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 GEO Pakistan
 Tension persists in Faisalabad
 Updated at: 0133 PST,  Monday, March 01, 2010
Tension persists in Faisalabad FAISALABAD: After the incidents of sectarian violence in Faisalabad on Saturday which claimed lives of four persons and left over two dozen injured, the tension can still be sensed in parts of the city on Sunday, Geo news reported.

Heavy contingents of police force are deployed all across city to thwart any untoward situation.

It may be recalled that following the clashes between two armed groups, reportedly belonging to religious sects, the angry mob pelted the Ghulam Mohammedabad police station with stones; besides setting on fire many vehicles and a house.

Incidents of aerial firing and hurling stones at one another left many persons injured, meanwhile, some among them are still under treatment at Allied Hospital here, sources told media.

According to police sources, they have been ordered to book to justice those who are found guilty of disrupting law and order situation in city and torching people property.

Also, many political parties staged protest rallies against one another on Sunday, sources said further.
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