Death sentences commuted of Godhra train fire convicts

    An Indian court has commuted death sentences for 11 Muslim men convicted of setting fire to a train in 2002.

    59 people, mainly Hindu pilgrims, were killed in Godhra, in the western state of Gujarat, as a blaze engulfed the train they were travelling on.

    The attack led to some of India's worst riots in which more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died.

    The court also upheld life sentences of another 20 men and rejected an appeal challenging the acquittal of 63 others.

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