Five killed in India castle riots

Members of one of India’s lowest castes rioted today in a bid to get shunted even further down the social ladder, and four people were killed after a mob beat a police officer to death, officials said.

The unrest in western India – the scene of riots nearly a year ago by the same group, the Gujjars – prompted authorities to call out soldiers to bolster the police, said Gulab Chand Kataria, the home minister of Rajasthan state, where the violence took place.