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Police fired at least 20 rounds of tear gas shells to disperse a stone-pelting mob near a flyover adjacent to Osmania University campus here this evening.
Updated : Feb 20, 2010, 08:50 PM IST
Police fired at least 20 rounds of tear gas shells to disperse a stone-pelting mob near a flyover adjacent to Osmania University campus here this evening.
The fresh round of violence erupted in Tarnaka area after city police successfully foiled the attempt of the students to lay a siege to Andhra Pradesh Assembly in support their demand for a separate Telangana state.
Students indulged in heavy stone-pelting at police raising slogans "police go back".
Five persons reportedly sustained injuries in the stone-pelting but there was no official confirmation of this.
The police burst tear gas shells to quell the stone- pelting mob near Tarnaka flyover while going out from the university campus.