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Nearly 50 people, including two BJP workers, were on Thursday held in Samastipur and Nalanda districts of Bihar in connection with communal clashes that erupted there in the last couple of days. Eleven persons were taken into custody in Samastipur district where trouble had erupted when some miscreants hurled footwear at a procession carrying the idol of Goddess Durga for immersion upon conclusion of Chaiti Navaratra.