Hundreds of troops have been dispatched to India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh after 28 people were killed in a weekend of communal violence, police said on Monday.

Authorities declared a high security alert after clashes between Muslims and Hindus in Uttar Pradesh, which has witnessed some of the country's worst religious riots in recent decades.

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