Clashing groups teargassed

BARODA, APRIL 5. Police burst 40 teargas shells and resorted to lathicharge to disperse two groups which clashed with each other, injuring nine persons, at Bavampura and Panigate areas of the city last night.

Police said the trouble started when two youths were quarreling at a tea stall and another person intervened and asked them to disperse. However, the youths, instead of heeding his advise, brought some youths and started beating him.

When people from the area from where the person hailed came to know about it, they started to pelt stones at the youths, who retaliated and in the skirmish nine persons including a police constable were injured, police added.

Special police force has been rushed to the area and patrolling has been intensified.

- PTI

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