Eight policemen including a station house officer (SHO) were injured in two separate incidents of firing and brick batting in Bihar's Bhojpur district, a police officer said today.
Superintendent of Police, Awakash Kumar said a man was shot dead at Bajeriyan village yesterday evening. When a police team was leaving the place with the body, some people fired at the team to protest the taking away of the body, in which the SHO Sanjay Kumar received bullet injury in his hand.
The police team also returned the fire, the SP said.
Around 15 people were today arrested in connection with yesterday's firing, Kumar said.
The situation in the village is tense but under control, he said, adding additional police forces have been deployed at the village where senior officials are camping.
The son of a village home guard was shot dead by a man identified as Bahadur yesterday evening. The angry villagers attacked the house of Bahadur and set his bicycle, tractor on fire, Kumar said.
A police team went to the village and was about the leave the place with the body when some villagers fired at the cops to prevent them from taking the body, the SP said.
The injured SHO was admitted to Ara Sadar hospital from where he was shifted to a private hospital, the SP added.
In a separate incident, seven policemen including a sub-inspector were injured when some people allegedly under the influence of liquor attacked the police team at Chandwa village in the district also last evening, police said.
The police team had gone to the village after receiving complaint that some people were creating nuisance under the influence of liquor, Nawada police station SHO Subodh Kumar said.
When the police team reached the village, some people threw stones and bricks at them injuring a sub-inspector and six policemen. All the injured policemen have been admitted to Ara sadar hospital, Kumar said.
Ten persons have been arrested in this connection, the SHO said adding that all the 10 persons were sent to Ara jail after getting their medical examination done.
A police team have been deployed at the village, he added.
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