TUTICORIN: A protester was killed by a rubber bullet in southern India Wednesday, a day after 10 were shot dead when police opened fire on a rally demanding the closure of a copper plant, officials said. “We were forced to fire rubber bullets which unfortunately hit one man in the spine and he died,” he added. Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami ordered a judicial inquiry into Tuesday’s shootings but defended the police response. Stalin, leader of the main Tamil Nadu opposition party the DMK, said police were guilty of “atrocities.”“Mass Murder of Innocent People,” he tweeted Wednesday. Tamil Nadu is one of India’s most industrialised states and similar protests over environmental concerns have turned deadly in the past, including in Tuticorin.

Source: New Strait Times May 23, 2018 12:22 UTC