In Secunderabad 'Agnipath' Violence, How 40 Train Passengers Were Rescued
NDTV
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A person has died and over 15 were injured in Telangana as an angry mob protesting against the new military recruitment policy, Agnipath, set fire to several trains and damaged public property today.
At least 5,000 agitators reportedly entered a railway station in Secunderabad and tried to set fire to a coach of a passenger train that had nearly 40 occupants inside. The passengers, some of them children, were saved with timely action by railway staff, who helped them move to an adjoining coach.
At least 40 passengers were inside the A1 coach as it was attacked by protesters with sticks and stones, Suman Kumar Sharma, who is an AC power car mechanic, told NDTV.
"There were around 40 people in here (inside the coach), but of those who committed the crime, I could not count. There were over 5,000 of them," he said as he showed the wreckage inside the coach.
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