11 police officers and civilians injured in clashes in Akkaraipattu
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11 police officers and civilians injured in clashes in Akkaraipattu

11 police officers and civilians injured in clashes in Akkaraipattu

Eleven police officers and a civilian injured and admitted to hospital following a clash between a group of people and police at the Palamuna road block in Akkaraipattu last night, Police said.


Police spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said that Akkaraipattu police station operates a road block at Palamuna on the Kalmunai-Akkaraipattu main road and that a Police Sergeant and three personnel from the civil security force were on duty at the checkpoint last night.


The residents of the Palamuna area, angered by this incident, had then arrived at the police checkpoint and destroyed the police post there and also attempted to set fire to it while they had also assaulted the Police Sergeant and civil security force members on duty, he said.


SSP Thalduwa said that one civilian, a 31-year-old resident of Palamuna, has been injured in this shooting and that he too is being treated at the Akkaraipattu Hospital.

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