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Two persons were killed and several others injured as police opened fire on Friday in Bihar's Katihar district following stone-pelting by protesters who were demanding better power supply on 26 July, Wednesday.
The Bihar Police officials said the two men killed during the protest in Katihar were not victims of police firing but were shot by an unidentified person, as is visible in the CCTV footage of the incident.
Katihar Firing: Two persons died while several others, including many police personnel and power department officials, were injured in the district's Barsoi area where a demonstration demanding better electricity supply turned violent.
In the CCTV footage shared by ANI on Twitter, a man is attacking people. The officials claimed that the CCTV footage showed a gun-toting man “coming from the direction where the first death took place. He can be then seen shooting at and injuring two other bystanders, one of whom died later”.