TN: School buses set on fire after student dies by suicide

The protest over the alleged suicide of a Class XII girl of a private school in Kallakurichi district in north Tamil Nadu turned violent on Sunday with protesters forcibly entering the school premises and setting its buses and a police vehicle on fire. They pelted police personnel with stones, injuring 52, including deputy inspector general (DIG) of police M Pandian and Kallakurichi superintendent of police S Selvakumar. Kallakurichi district collector P N Sridhar denied that police fired in the air twice to quell the violence and said only tear gas shells were used.