One rickshaw driver was stabbed to death by a group of people, while another succumbed to a bullet injury in hospital, he added.

Crowds gathered on the city’s streets, hurled bombs and threw stones during rioting in some areas of the city. Some shops and houses were ransacked and then set ablaze by mobs.

Police fired teargas shells to disperse the crowds.

The violence broke out late on Sunday after the police detained two people in connection with cases relating to riots in the city.—AFP