Some facts about the brutality:
- Overall death toll: about 5,000.
- 820 persons with serious injuries are still admitted to various hospitals, many of them in critical condition.
- 99 persons have been killed in police firing.
- Security forces have fired 5176 rounds of ammunition at the mobs.
- Security forces have fired 7276 tear gas shells.
- Nearly 2459 houses have been set on fire.
- Approximately 2082 shops have been set on fire.
- About 1084 cabins have been burned.
- Close to 448 vehicles, including 12 buses, have been set on fire.
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