Any excuse to run riot: Now cricket

But on Monday morning, five persons arrived at a shop in Madhu village where the two men were sitting and attacked them with sharp weapons. Shopkeepers took the injured to hospital where they died.

Police said clashes broke out soon after, with members of both the communities attacking each other, looting and burning shops for almost an hour. Twenty shops were looted and many set afire. At least 12 people were injured.

Later in the evening, a middle-aged man was dragged out from an ST bus on the Mahudha-Dakor highway and killed by the mourners who were returning after completing the funeral rites of the two brothers. ‘‘The mourners pelted stones at an ST bus, forcing the driver to stop the vehicle. The man was dragged out and killed,’’ said Kheda police chief Manoj Agarwal.

The Agarwal said 12 rounds were fired in the air and six teargas shells lobbed to disperse the rioters. Police also carried out a lathicharge. Twenty people were arrested. ‘‘We have arrested some persons and are now focusing on maintaining law and order,’’ said Agarwal.

Elsewhere in the state, two people were killed and four injured in Dasad village of Mehsana district. In Ahmedabad, a crude bomb explosion killed a shopowner in Dani Limda, police said.