Cauvery row: 1 dead, 1 injured in police firing in Bengaluru

September 12, 2016 22:34

One person has died and another received injured after police opened fire upon protesters in Bengaluru's Rajgopalnagar area this evening.

Arson and vandalism was seen on the streets of Bengaluru and on a highway to Mysuru today as anger boiled over on a Supreme Court order that meant that Karnataka would have to release more water from the river Cauvery to neighbor Tamil Nadu. Some 15,000 policemen have been posted across the IT city.

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