Two killed in police firing and clashes during Gujjar protests

JAIPUR: Two persons were on Friday killed and six others, including two policemen, injured in police firing and clashes during Gujjar protests in Rajasthan's Sawaimadhopur district.
 
Police fired after the protesters, who have been indulging in a road blockade agitation at Usali Darra, 12 kms from Sawaimadhopur since yesterday, threw stones at them, an official spokesman said.
       
Police first resorted to lathicharge and then lobbed teargas shells and fired rubber bullets to disperse the protesters before opening fire, he said.
 
The deceased were identified as Kanahyia Lal and Radhyshyam, the spokesman said.
 
The road connecting Sawaimadhopur with Sheopur in Madhya Pradesh had been blocked in stretches by the protesters, they said.
 
Meanwhile, relatives of fourteen people, who died in police firing last week, refused to receive their bodies and demanded that bodies of 18 people killed in Pilupura and Sikandra should be taken up for postmortem first, official sources said.