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Students In India Protest After University Attacked By Masked Assailants

Protesters say the weekend attack at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University was carried out by Hindu nationalists linked to the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a charge the BJP denies.

A fresh wave of protests spread across India's biggest cities Monday, hours after masked assailants invaded dormitories on an elite university campus in the capital New Delhi and beat up students and faculty.

showed attackers with bandanas covering their faces, wielding rods while roaming darkened hallways, and injured students with bloodied faces. The Indian Medical Association doctors and nurses came under attack as they rushed to campus late Sunday to try to help.

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