A neighborhood administration officer and a number of other police personnel have been britally attacked by a mob at a village in Jharkhand’s Saraikela on Friday when the cops tried to name off the continued mela owing to the rising Coronavirus instances.
According to media stories, the officers had gone to the village to persuade the organisers to cease the continued mela the place a whole bunch of individuals had gathered.
Many folks have been attending the gathering with out following COVID norms. The attendees have been seen with face masks and flouting social distancing norms, which may very well be a giant danger amid the raging pandemic.
When the cops tried to steer the villagers to finish the mela and requested the folks to name off the gathering, the villagers misplaced cool and attacked the cops with stones and stones.
Several movies of the incident are making rounds of the social media displaying policemen operating in direction of their automobiles mela attendees threw stones and chased them with sticks.
The incident got here on the time when all the nation is going through a deadlier second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Jharkhand on Friday reported 7,595 recent instances of Coronavirus, pushing the caseload of the state to 1,84,951. As many as 106 sufferers succumbed to the lethal illness in previous 24 hours, taking the loss of life toll to 1,715 on Friday.
