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Mob goes on rampage

MADURAI: An unruly mob burnt a police jeep and motorbikes, injured policemen and damaged buses and other vehicles on the Madurai-Tuticorin highway at Valayankulam near here on Tuesday.

An Inspector of Police fired one round from his service revolver to chase away the violent group.

Hundreds of caste Hindus blocked the highway at three places — Valayankulam, Eliyarpatti and Parapaththi — protesting an act of insult to ‘Perumpidagu Muththarayar.’ This act is seen as a reprisal to the attack on two houses belonging to oppressed castes following a petty quarrel at a tea shop.

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