Many residents of northeast Delhi, who had been trapped in their homes as violence raged outside for two days, were rescued on Wednesday with the help of police and locals.
Among those rescued were a sexagenarian resident of Mustafabad, Nawab.
As police personnel reached out to him, a teary-eyed Nawab Malik, who had been confined to home for two days along with his wife, said, "I have never witnessed such a violence in many decades."
His cousin Karim, a barber, said, "The people in our street helped us. They supported us or else we would have been killed."