‘This is state-sponsored terrorism’: Deadly clashes between Hindus and Muslims overshadow Trump’s India trip

As anti-Muslim mobs rampage through Delhi streets chanting ‘Modi, Modi’, Trump says Indian prime minister is ‘such a nice man ... very religious and tough’, Adam Withnall reports from Delhi

The president failed to acknowledge the violence and uproar affecting India (Reuters)

The deaths of at least 10 people in the worst Hindu-Muslim violence to hit Delhi in decades overshadowed the second and final day of Donald Trump’s state visit to India on Tuesday.

As Trump returned to the US without a significant breakthrough to ease tariffs on trade, horrific scenes shared across TV and social media showed crowds pelting each other with stones, Muslims being dragged through the streets by mobs shouting Hindu slogans and a mosque set on fire in the northeast of the city.

The clashes were the bloodiest in Delhi since protests began in mid-December against a change to the law that grants a route to Indian citizenship for migrants of most South Asian religions, but which excludes Muslims.