 "Police and residents walk past charred remains of vehicles vandalised by a mob")
Three people were killed in riots triggered by an offensive Facebook post on Tuesday night in Bengaluru. Around 700 youths attacked a police station, torched vehicles, assaulted cops, and tried to set the residence of a local Congress member of legislature (MLA) on fire, eyewitnesses said.
The person suspected of putting up the post is the nephew of the MLA, Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy.
“There is a youth who is related to a local politician,’’ Maulana Mohammed Maqsood Imran Rasheedi, a top Muslim religious leader in Bengaluru, told agencies. He said the youth had posted a derogatory message on social media preceded by
