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Teacher hit by auto carrying protestors dies

By Our Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA, JAN. 25. The response to the bandh called by the Telugu Desam Party on Tuesday in the wake of the Penukonda MLA, Paritala Ravindra's murder was peaceful and total in Krishna district.

In an untoward incident in Machilipatnam, a schoolteacher, Fatima, 25 was hit by an speeding auto-rickshaw carrying agitators, succumbed to injuries.

Educational institutions, banks, business establishments and shops remained closed in all the commercially important areas in the city. The APSRTC and private bus owners chose not to operate any services during the day.

The APSRTC's Krishna Regional Manager, M. Sitapathi, said no buses were operated. Agitators had damaged 39 RTC buses on Monday. They torched seven buses including a Garuda Volvo worth Rs. 58 lakhs. The Volvo and another bus were totally destroyed, while five others were partially burnt. While the Volvo was torched at Munagacherla village near Nandigama, four buses were torched in and around Gudivada, one near Ibrahimpatnam and another near Lingala on the way to Vatsavai. There were, however, no untoward incidents on Tuesday, Mr. Sitapathi said.

Rail roko

The former MP, Gadde Rammohan, and his followers detained the Hyderabad-bound Sathavahana Intercity Express for 30 minutes staging a rail roko at the Vijayawada Railway station. The former MP and his followers then went in a rally to the Pandit Nehru Bus Station and staged a dharna at the gate. From the bus station the group of agitators went in a rally to the old city to enforce the bandh.

The Telugu Desam activists and sympathisers staged rasta rokos on important roads in their respective areas.

They even put up roadblocks to prevent vehicles from moving.

Vehicle owners, particularly those driving two-wheelers, were put to some inconvenience, when petrol bunks refused to vend fuel fearing attacks from agitators.

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