AHMEDABAD, India -- Police fired to disperse clashing Hindus and Muslims, killing one man, as fresh religious violence flared in India's riot-torn western State of Gujarat, Reuters quoted a police official as saying on Sunday.

Sporadic clashes have continued in Gujarat since more than 750 people, mostly Muslims, were killed last month in a wave of reprisal killings after a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu activists, burning 59 people alive in late February.

Seventeen people were injured in separate incidents of violence across the state on Saturday night as shops were torched and Hindu and Muslim mobs hurled petrol bombs and stones at each other, a state police official said.

Police opened fire in Kapadwanj town, 70km (45 miles) south of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, after Hindus and Muslims clashed in a local dispute, the official said.

"Curfew was imposed late on Saturday night and the situation is now under control," the official said.