Newspaper Headlines: JNU Students And Faculty Attacked By Mob, Iraq Votes To Expel US Troops
Scores of students, including JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh, and several teachers were beaten up on the JNU campus on Sunday evening; Pressure against the US in Iraq ramped up Sunday, as rockets hit near the American embassy and parliament demanded the ouster of thousands of US troops over the killing of a top Iran general.
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Groups of masked men armed with sticks, rods and hammers stormed Jawaharlal Nehru University and attacked students and teachers; A young Sikh man was shot dead in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar a day after an angry mob threatened to storm the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara, prompting India on Sunday to call on Pakistan. -
Iraq called on the government to work to end all foreign troop presence as backlash grew against the killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US strike; Masked men and women, armed with sticks and stones, went around JNU campus in Delhi, entering hostels, beating up students and teachers and smashing cars. -
Simmering tensions in JNU escalated into major violence when masked goons went around the campus, entering Sabarmati and Periyar hostels, and assaulted students and teachers with lathis, rods and hammers. -
Some 200 stick-wielding men led by ABVP members unleashed mayhem at JNU on Sunday evening, thrashing students who are opposing registrations for the next semester over a steep hostel fee hike and leaving twi dozen injured, faculty members said. -
At least 30 students and teachers were injured during a clash which broke out between members of the JNUSU and the RSS-affiliated ABVP on the campus.
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