425: Bengaluru Violence: How Did Protests Breakout Over Quarantining?
Violent protests erupted in Padarayanapura, one of Bengaluru’s hotspot areas, on 19 April, when health department officials came to identify and shift secondary contacts of COVID-19 patients from the area to quarantine facilities.
Video footage from that area shows people breaking barricades, chairs and tables in protest.
But how and why did violence breakout in this Bengaluru hotspot in the middle of the lockdown? Tune in to The Big Story!
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