Like Meena, Biren Shah (23), another one stabbed to death, had taken a shortcut to his Mandvi residence via Lal Akhara, while returning from his newly opened Waghodia Road shop. “He was attacked with a chopper on his neck and shoulder. His body was mutilated and left on the street,” said his brother Devang Shah.

Biren was cremated on Monday night. Shah’s relatives were asked to give a written representation to a five-member panel from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which, tomorrow, will visit the families of those killed.

Similarly, the two Fatehpura residents, Imran Hussain Dhobi (25) and Mohammad Hayat Mansuri (22), were returning home from work when they caught police bullets in their heads near Champaner Darwaza, after they took refuge in neighbouring buildings.

“The boys were sitting down, when they stood up, the police suddenly fired and they got hit,” said Mansuri’s relative, Yasmin Sheikh.

While Imran used to work in a dry-cleaning shop owned by his family, Mansuri, a Sarsia Talav resident, was employed as a mattress-maker.

Imran had shifted to his new residence at Adania Pul after his Baranpura home was burnt during the post-Godhra riots.

Mohammed Ashfaq (23), who was injured early this morning, died at SSG Hospital later in the day. He was the youngest of three brothers and sisters, and worked as a salesman in a footwear shop in Alkapuri.

Ashfaque, the son of a rickshaw-driver, had just got engaged to be married on Sunday. Friends of this Wadi Moti Vhorwad resident say he had come out of his house to watch the stone-pelting and insist he was killed in police firing.

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