A Muslim-majority village in India has been run over by bulldozers - 'We are forced to live on the streets'
A Muslim-majority village in India has been run over by bulldozers - 'We are forced to live on the streets' Muhammad Saud's shop was destroyed by the authorities in the Nuh district. "They destroyed everything in seconds," said Muhammad Saud, weeping, standing over a pile of rubble. He and his younger brother, Nawab Sheikh, look at the remains of a shop they managed in a residential complex in Nuh district, north India's Haryana State. As he spoke to the BBC on Saturday (05/08), a yellow bulldozer roared behind him. "We have 15 shops built on family land. We have all the documents but they [police] insist these buildings are illegal," Saud said. The buildings belonging to the two brothers were among hundreds of shops and homes destroyed by authorities following communal violence that broke out last week in Nuh, a Muslim-majority district that is also one of the poorest in the Indian capital region (which includes Delhi andsurrounding