“When our friends went to pick our friends who fell on the ground after bullets pierced their chest for treatment police did not allow them to take the injured to hospital,” said Sanu Choudhari, a leader of Tharuhat Joint State Council, an agitating group. “We could have saved them as they died only after an hour.”
Police informed the agitators about curfew orders at around midnight when the demonstrators were still in the road blocking several passenger vehicles being escorted by the police. “When our friends were questioning why the police imposed curfew, police opened fire from our back side, an injured Pramel Choudhari said. “Seven of the passenger vehicles had already passed and we were blocking the road not to let our banda defied.”
Choudhari is receiving treatment at Bheri Zonal Hospital along with two others. Ram Prasad Choudhari and Prakash Choudhari were killed in the police firing.
Activist Sanu also claimed the police did not even warn before opening fire, anm allegation police officers reject outright. “Police opened fire only after a group of around 200 people blocked East-West Highway and started vandalizing passenger buses,” said Superintendent of Police Tika Ram Sijuwal.
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