Indore, Oct 21 (PTI) More than 30 people were injured in the annual Hingot war, a tradition associated with Diwali, at Gautampura in the district on Tuesday evening.

`Warriors' from Gautampura and the neighbouring village of Runji lobbed firecrackers made from the Hingot fruit at each other as crowds of spectators cheered them on.

Block Medical Officer Dr Vandana Kesari told PTI that around 35 participants were injured. Two of them were sent to a hospital in Depalpur as they had sustained serious injuries.

One of them suffered a broken arm while the other suffered a nose injury, she said.

High nets and barricades had been erected around the `battlefield' to protect spectators from flying missiles, said Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sanghpriya Samrat.

Some 200 police and 100 administra

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