One person lost his life while several others were injured after Telangana police allegedly opened fire on a mob at Secunderabad railway station as protests against the Centre’s new Agnipath scheme.
Hundreds of youngsters gathered at the Secunderabad railway station on Friday morning, demanding long-term Army recruitment instead of the new four-year period of service.
The situation escalated with protesters going on a rampage, setting at least four railway coaches on fire, blocking railway lines with two-wheelers, wooden boxes, garbage cans and wheelbarrows of railway porters, and stealing goods kept in the parcel section. An official of the Railway Protection Force said that one train was set on fire.
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