Sixth death in clashes

Kampung Medan - A sixth person died yesterday after Malaysia's worst ethnic clashes for decades as Deputy Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi visited the scene of the bloodshed to appeal for calm. Police said an ethnic Indian died in hospital from stab wounds suffered two days earlier in the clashes between Indians and Malays. They said 52 people had been injured, almost all of them Indians, and 177 people were arrested.