CAB protest: Students clash with police near Assam secretariat

Protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill continued to rock Assam as a large group of students fought a pitched battle with the police near the state secretariat on Wednesday, police said. Students in large numbers were seen proceeding towards the Secretariat from all directions.

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Students clash with police near Assam secretariat

Another group has reached Ganeshguri area, around 500 metres from the centre of power. They broke a barricade on GS Road following which the police resorted to lathi-charge. Teargas shells were also lobbed at the students who also threw the shells back at the policemen. Claiming that several of them were injured in the lathi-charge, the students said,

"This is a barbaric government led by Sarbananda Sonowal. We will not succumb to any pressure till the CAB is repealed."

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Traffic has gone haywire in the city. Besides Guwahati, protestors also clashed with the police in Dibrugarh district where the police fired tear gas shells and rubber bullets at demonstrators. A journalist was injured in stone-pelting there.

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