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Reuters
NEW DELHI
Indian police are investigating a fire that destroyed a Rohingya Muslim settlement in New Delhi last weekend after a Twitter user claimed responsibility for setting the blaze.
The fire started early on Sunday and engulfed the shantytown, forcing its 226 residents to flee. No one was hurt but many of the Rohingya lost UN refugee documents. It was the fourth fire in the settlement in six years and police said they were investigating its cause and the claim of responsibility.
"This is an open-ended investigation and we are looking into the Twitter matter,"Chinmoy Biswal, a deputy commissioner of police, told Reuters.
"We are trying to find out more."
Delhi lawyer Prashant Bhushan on Thursday filed a complaint asking police to investigate the Twitter user who claimed responsibility for torching the houses of the"terrorists".
