Violence raged in India's western Gujarat state on Saturday as the Prime Minister appealed for peace while sending in fresh troops to quell the country's worst religious bloodshed in a decade. Despite the deployment of thousands of heavily armed soldiers to reinforce overstretched police in Gujarat, 35 people were burned alive in two separate clashes between Hindus and Muslims. The death toll is nearing 300 from four days of violence sparked when a suspected Muslim mob on Wednesday set fire to a train carrying Hindu devotees, burning 58 mostly women and children to death.