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Violence in UP, Mangaluru claims lives of 2 protesters
Updated On: 20 December, 2019 07:50 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
One more person died of a firearm injury in Lucknow which he suffered while passing by a protest as protesters pelted stones, torched vehicles as cops struggled to contain the fallout
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Protestors pelt stones at cops after their clash during a rally against NRC and CAA in Lucknow on Thursday
New Delhi: Simultaneous protests raged in multiple cities on Thursday with thousands-strong crowds of students, activists defying the prohibitory orders to voice their dissent against the new citizenship law, resulting in violence in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka, where two people were killed in police firing.
In Mangaluru, 2 people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, turned violent, police said. Police sources said the protesters attempted to lay siege to the Mangalore North police station and tried to attack police personnel, following which force was used to disperse them. Two persons received bullet injuries in police firing and later succumbed at a hospital, police confirmed. The deceased were identified as Jaleel Kudroli (49) and Nausheen (23).
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