Indian mosque blast, police firing kills 12

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HYDERABAD, India (AFP) — A bomb tore through one of India's oldest mosques Friday, killing nine people as thousands of worshippers attended prayers, police and reports said, while three more died in later protests.

Nine people were killed when an improvised explosive device went off in the Mecca Mosque in the southern Hyderabad city, police and the Press Trust of India said.

Anti-riot police also appeared to have shot dead three people in violent protests following the attack on the 17th-century shrine, the Press Trust of India (PTI) said.

At least 17 others received shrapnel injuries in the deafening blast, city administrator R.V. Chandravasan told AFP, while 32 protesters were hurt in subsequent clashes with the police in Muslim-majority Hyderabad.

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