Protests after masked men attack Indian university

Jawaharlal Nehru University has previously been targeted by group linked to governing Bharatiya Janata party

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Students have protested in India after a masked mob stormed a Delhi university and attacked students and teachers with sledgehammers, iron rods and bricks.

At least 40 students and staff of the Jawaharlal Nehru University were hospitalised after the attack, which opposition parties blamed on a student organisation linked to the prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party.

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