**Two newspaper offices have been attacked in India’s Karnataka state in continuing violence over an article by Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.**Two Muslim protesters were killed in clashes with police after the article, which challenges the Muslim practice of veil wearing, appeared in local papers.
An unidentified group vandalised the office of the Kannada Prabha newspaper, which carried the article, police said.
Ms Nasreen has denied writing the article for the newspaper.
She said a translated version of a previously written piece had been “doctored” to malign her.
Ms Nasreen fled her native Bangladesh in 1994 after receiving death threats relating to a book she had written.
Muslims said her work was offensive to them. She left India in 2008 after further protests and went to live in Sweden.
The Kannada Prabha newspaper, whose offices were attacked by a mob on Tuesday night, had published a translated article of Ms Nasreen, triggering off protests in the Shimoga and Hasan areas.
Police said a group of ten masked men attempted to set the newspaper’s office in Mangalore on fire after dousing petrol in the premises, but fire brigade personnel extinguished it in time.
The police said the same group attacked another newspaper office in the area.
“The miscreants have been arrested. We have some clues about who was behind the attacks,” senior police official Gopal Hosur said.
Separately, in Shimoga, incidents of stone throwing and arson were reported despite an ongoing curfew in the violence affected areas.
Several shops and vehicles have been set on fire in retaliatory attacks by Muslims and Hindus, our correspondent says.
About 50 people have been injured in the continuing violence in the state which began on Monday.
Police say Hindu groups joined the unrest in Shimoga and Hasan after Muslims took to the streets. About 50 arrests have been made in connection with the violence.