The gunning down of five suspected Maoists at Menasinahadya in Karnataka’s Chickmagalur district on Tuesday has triggerred a violent reaction from the locals, who set fire to a police jeep to protest the killing of ‘innocent’ persons in the guise of anti-Naxalite operations. A large number of people gathered outside the house of Rame Gowda, where the shootout took place, and prevented the police from shifting the dead bodies for post-mortem. The angry locals, many of whom bared their chests and dared the police to shoot at them, later set fire to a police jeep stationed near the scene of the encounter, besides bringing down trees to block the road leading Menasinahadya. Full Story
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