MANGALORE: One person died and four were injured when the police opened fire to quell an unruly mob in Mulky police station limits near here on Friday.

Four persons, including Superintendent of Police B. Dayananad, were injured when the mob attacked the police station. Following this, Dakshina Kannada District magistrate imposed curfew in Mulky police station limits for three days from Friday.

The mob went berserk during the funeral procession of Sukahananda Shetty, general secretary of the Mulky Moodbdiri Assembly unit of BJP. The police identified the dead man as Prem of Chitrapur village. Dinesh, Nagaraj and Suresh, who were injured in police firing, are said to be out of danger.

Mr. Shetty was murdered at Kulai by a group of five persons forenoon.

Mr. Dayananda has suffered a fracture in his hand while the District Magistrate's car was damaged when the mob threw stones at it. Four shops were set on fire by them and many private vehicles were damaged.

The Mulky police station has sustained heavy damage. The miscreants tried to torch the police station.

The chain of events leading to the police firing and the death of a person began in the afternoon when the convoy of vehicles took the body of Mr. Shetty from A.J. Hospital at Kuntikana in Mangalore to his native in Mulky - a distance of 35 km.

The trouble started when the procession entered Mulky as some of the people threw stones at shops. The police first lobbed teargas shells and resorted to lathicharge.

The police opened fire when the mob attacked the police station at Mulky.

BJP MLAs N. Yogish Bhat and Krishna Palemar called on the injured at the hospital.

Inspector-General of Police H.N. Sathyanarayana Rao told The Hindu that the police had summoned five platoons of Karnataka State Reserve Police from Shiggaon in Dharwad district and from Udupi district. Four platoons of KSRP from Mangalore have already reached Mulky.

As news of the attack spread, shopkeepers downed shutters in Surathkal, Kulai, Hosabettu, and Kottara.

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