New Delhi (CNN) Deadly protests erupted across India Sunday over a controversial citizenship bill that critics fear could further marginalize the country's minority Muslim community. Ongoing protests in Assam, in India's northeast, turned violent, with at least five people killed, police said. In Delhi, students began demonstrating at the prestigious Jamia Milia Islamia university early Sunday, with around 2,000 people taking part at the protest's peak. Anger has been growing nationally over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which was signed into law last week. Police clash with demonstrators following a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in New Delhi on December 15, 2019.

Source: CNN December 16, 2019 03:45 UTC