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Two die, several injured during students protest in Siliguri | Two persons died and several were injured during a scuffle between police personnel and students claiming rights
over a playground in Siliguri, West Bengal. Students of Sri Krishnapur High School
staged a violent protest on Thursday. Dipak Mirdha and Dipak Das died and several
other were injured. The situation became tense when a local court issued a directive
for the handing over of the land used by students as a playground to its owner
Alok Das. Reportedly, the school authorities had been using the disputed land
as playground for many years and objected to the police taking it over. During
the argument, police fired at students and attacked them with sticks and when
situation got brutally worst, they resorted 10-12 firing rounds, which resulted
in two dead and several injured. "We were playing on the ground when the police
accompanied by a man came over here to take over the ground. They asked us to
leave and they didn't even talk to us and when we protested they baton charged
us and even opened fire. Two of our friends died in which one died immediately
on the spot and the other died on way to Siliguri Medical Hospital . We want that
police personnel who fired on our friends should be arrested and till then we
will not leave the school premises," said Arup Das, a student. The violence resulted
in destruction of six vehicles and these included four trucks of Border Security
Force (BSF), one state government bus and one police van. Cutting across political
differences, the Congress party, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) and Socialist
Unity Centre of India (SUCI) have declared a 12-hour shutdown in Siliguri as a
mark of protest against the fatal violence that claimed lives of two students. |
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