Kolkata (West Bengal): Amidst imposition of prohibitory orders and additional police reinforcement in North 24 Parganas district's Bhatpara in West Bengal, a crude bomb was hurled out on Friday at Kankinara.
Shops remained closed as tensions prevailed in the area. Locals complained that there were hardly any police picketing last night despite the government's intervention.
On Thursday, violence erupted when some miscreants started firing in public. Police, in return, aimed to fire towards the miscreants which claiming two lives and leaving four miscreants injured.
The violence erupted on the day when the new Bhatpara police station was scheduled to be inaugurated by the Director General of Police (DGP). But keeping in view the ferocity of the clash he returned midway and rushed to the state Secretariat, Nabanna, where the government had called an urgent meeting to tackle the violence.
Meanwhile, "Section 144 (of the Criminal Procedure Code) has been imposed in areas under Bhatpara, Jagaddal police station and adjoining places. All efforts are being made to restore normalcy in the area," Home Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay said.
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