Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse
Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse
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Asia /  South Asia

Two dead in India’s Assam as protests over citizenship law turn violent

  • Violence broke out after India’s parliament approved the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal migrants
  • Police in Guwahati fired bullets as protesters demonstrated in the streets, defying a curfew

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Updated: 6:22am, 13 Dec, 2019

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Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse
Police officers try to rescue a fellow officer who was set on fire during a protest against the Indian government's Citizenship Amendment Bill, in Agartala, the capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. Photo: Agence France-Presse
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