Indian police shot dead two people in the bloodied western state of Gujarat today as the death toll from the country’s worst religious violence in a decade climbed well into the hundreds. The main opposition Congress Party said the death toll was more than 800, citing figures gathered by its offices across Gujarat, India’s second most industrialized state. The violence was triggered by a train attack last week in which 58 Hindus burned to death. Since then, victims have told horrific tales of families being burned alive as raging crowds carrying swords, knives and hockey sticks freely roamed the streets and set fire to shops and houses.