CALCUTTA, Nov 6: Twenty-one tea garden workers were burned to death in eastern India on Thursday when a mob set fire to a union leader’s house, police said.

More than 100 people set fire to the house in the remote Dalgaon tea estate in West Bengal state following a dispute over the recruitment of clerks, Chayan Mukherjee, inspector general of police, told Reuters.

He said 106 people had been arrested and armed police deployed after the incident about 700km north of Calcutta, the state capital.

In a separate arson attack, seven people were burned to death in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday night after their huts were set ablaze by people from another community.—Reuters