Ahmedabad, May 7 :    Ahmedabad, May 7:  Twenty-six-year-old Javed Abdul was riding his scooter to school, where he was a teacher. A mob waylaid him in Sarkhej, pulled him off the scooter, thrashed him, stabbed him and then set him on fire. A camel cart-driver, who was passing through Juhapura, was pounced upon by a mob out to avenge Javed's death. He was stabbed to death, his body burnt and the charred remains flung into a well. Gujarat descended into a cycle of attacks and backlashes as Hindus and Muslims used fire, stone, knives and acid bulbs against each other and police threw up their hands, saying this was not a simple law and order problem. Nine persons were dead at the end of a blood-splattered day. Javed, a teacher at ITI School and a resident of Juhapura, had got married only six months ago. Hearing that he had been burnt alive, youths in Juhapura, where Javed's brother runs a clinic, poured out on the streets. They stopped a truck and dragged out the driver, but he escaped and took shelter in a nearby police station. The mob set the truck ablaze before targeting the hapless camel cart-driver. The police retrieved his body from the well and sent it for post-mortem. The mob pelted stones on the policemen, who lobbed teargas shells and opened fire in return. Two 19-year-olds, Masood Sultan Khan Pathan and Mantazir Mahmoodbhai, were killed in the firing near Royal Akbar Tower on Juhapur Main Road. Both were residents of Juhapura. The killing of the youths triggered clashes in Kalupur in the afternoon, where two persons were stabbed. While one died outside the area's post office, the other managed to reach the police station. In counter-retaliation, a youth was stoned to death at Ravadi Bazar Char Rasta. The police opened fire to disperse the mob. Curfew was clamped around 2 pm. The cycle of attack and counter-attack had started when a Muslim youth was stabbed to death at 9.30 am near ST bus station in the Gita Mandir area. Soon after, members of the minority community attacked municipal staff near the Jamalpur slaughterhouse, less than half-a-km away. Bhagwan Nagarbhai, a municipal employee, was admitted to hospital with multiple stab injuries. He was in a critical condition. Indefinite curfew was clamped in Sarkhej, Vejalpur and Kalupur. Army and paramilitary forces have been deployed in the curfew-bound areas. 'At least three areas are still under curfew and soldiers and paramilitary forces are patrolling the streets to make sure the violence does not spread,' a police official said. 'I can't get out of my house without fearing for my life,' said Pranav Solanki, a clerk who lives in a western suburb. 'The police are of no use. The military should take over the entire city if normality is to return.' But joint police commissioner M.K. Tandon said 'no amount of deployment of army can bring the violence under control because the malaise is much deeper. Law enforcing cannot be expected to address these issues'. 'It is not a law and order problem. Had it been so, the problem would have been solved by policing,' he said. 'We, on our part, are just doing fire-fighting.' Shops were set on fire and members of the two communities clashed at Lunavada town, near Godhra, forcing authorities to impose indefinite curfew. Incidents of stone-throwing were reported through the day, before curfew was imposed at 7.30 pm.