A protest organised by the Students Federation of India (SFI) in Kannur on Tuesday against the police action on students in Kozhikode on October 10 turned violent. The traffic police station here and vehicles of the Kannur municipality were pelted with stones.
The SFI activists who blocked the highway around noon turned their ire at the traffic police station. The police said that nearly 10 windowpanes of the station were smashed in stone-pelting. The protestors hurled stones at a nearby camp office of the Director-General of Police. Stones were also hurled at nearby camp offices of the Superintendent of Police and the District Collector.
The irate SFI activists smashed the windscreen of a jeep of the municipality that passed through the area. Several street lamps were also damaged, the police said.
Mediapersons also came under attack allegedly from the protesting activists. Cameramen of the Indiavision and the Reporter Channel suffered injuries while capturing the incidents on their cameras.
At Taliparamba, SFI activists damaged a police aid post at the municipal bus stand. The attack followed a protest march taken out by SFI workers in the town. The protesting students reportedly forced educational institutions in the town to close. They reached the bus stand in procession and vandalised the police aid post, the police said.
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