6 policemen including DCP injured in stone pelting in Vadodara

Vadodara: At least six policemen including a DCP rank officer were injured in heavy stone pelting while some vehicles were torched during alleged communal tension in Fatepura area of Vadodara city of Gujarat late last night,police said today.

The tension started when people of a particular community started stone pelting on a marriage procession objecting to the playing of DJ system. The tension later escalated in to heavy stone pelting during which five policeman and a DCP was injured. Mob also torched at least three vehicles including a car and damaged various lorries kept alongside the road.

Police had to resort to at least 40 rounds of tear gas shelling to disperse the rioting mob. Unofficial reports said that three to four rounds of firing was also done in which one of the rioters sustained injury.

The situation was controlled post mid night and heavy police force was deployed in and around the area where tense calm prevailed.

Meanwhile, police has rounded up some people in connection with the violence in which over 200 people have been made accused of rioting and attempting to kill the policemen.

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