Jawan shoots at mob: 5 killed

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, DEC. 19. Five persons were killed when a constable of the State Reserve Police at an outpost in Kesori village in Gondia district, 100 kms from Nagpur, fired at a mob which had surrounded the spot following the alleged molestation of a tribal woman at the village's weekly market, reports reaching here said today.

As many as 13 persons, two of them seriously, have sustained injuries and senior police officials from Nagpur have gone to the spot.

There are two versions of what happened.

One is that a group, enraged that a woman was molested, gathered around the police outpost and demanded action. They became unruly and were fired upon, perhaps even without a warning.

The second version is that some persons in uniform may have themselves been involved in the incident and the mob that gathered was protesting. They were dealt with extreme prejudice by the armed personnel but the common thread in both the versions is that the firing was indiscriminate.

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