Mahatma Gandhi statue vandalised in US
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Last Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 11:12 AM IST
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The 6-ft tall, 650-pound (294 kg) bronze statue of Gandhi, in the Central Park of the City of Davis in Northern California, appeared to have been sawed off at the ankles and half its face was severed and missing.
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Indian-Americans have expressed deep anguish and shock at the incident.
Unknown miscreants have vandalised, broken and ripped from the base a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in a park in the US state of California, shocking and outraging Indian-Americans across the country, who have demanded that the officials investigate it as an incident of hate crime.