‘Cooch Behar firing took place after locals attacked CISF jawans due to misunderstanding’ скачать в хорошем качестве

‘Cooch Behar firing took place after locals attacked CISF jawans due to misunderstanding’

The Election Commission of India on Saturday said some misunderstanding resulted in the firing incident at a polling booth in Sitalkuchi assembly constituency seat in West Bengal's Cooch Behar. The firing took place after locals attacked security personnel due to this "misunderstanding". Four people were killed and seven injured in the firing incident. In a press statement detailing the sequence of events that led to the firing by personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), the Election Commission said the voting process was going on "smoothly" at booth number 126 in Sitalkuchi assembly constituency. The statement said a young boy named Manik Md was sick and was in the vicinity of the polling booth. Two-three local women were tending to him. Quoting a report of the district police, the statement added that seeing this, CISF personnel present at the booth inquired about the boy's health. They also asked the locals if they would like to send him to the hospital in a vehicle of the local police that was nearby. "However, some other local people thought that the boy was beaten by the CISF personnel, and as a result of such a misunderstanding a few people present there raised hue and cry and assembled nearly 300-350 villagers, including some women with household equipment that could hurt someone brutally," the statement said. It added that due to this "misunderstanding", the agitated mob attacked the CISF personnel who were detailed at the polling booth with "deadly equipment".