Mangaluru: TMC leaders Dinesh Trivedi and Nadimul Haque who arrived in the city on Saturday morning met the families of two, Abdul Jaleel and Nousheen who were killed in police firing on December 19 when police fired at protesters who were demonstrating against CAA and NRC in the city.

The two leaders handed over the cheques of Rs. five lac each to the families of the deceased after West Bengal CM and TMC Chief Mamata Banerjee had earlier announced compensation to the two families.

Speaking at the Mangaluru International Airport both the leaders condemned the incident that broke out in the city in December 19 and added that protests against CAA and NRC are being carried out across the country and at international level as well and police firing on such protests was not acceptable.

 

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Gurugram(PTI): At least nine people were burnt alive and 15 injured when a moving bus caught fire near Tauru in Haryana's Nuh district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The incident occurred around 2 am on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway. The bus was carrying around 60 people, all residents of Punjab's Hoshiarpur and Ludhiana, who were returning from pilgrim towns of Mathura and Vrindavan. All of them are relatives, police said.

"Nine people -- six women and three men -- were killed in the accident. Fifteen people were injured and have been hospitalised. All the injured are stable," said Inspector Jitendra Kumar, Station House Officer, Sadar Tauru.

"The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. A probe is underway," he said.

A local resident said that after noticing the fire, some people chased the bus on a motorcycle and asked the driver to stop. The locals also informed the police and fire department.