Mob ransacks school buildings, set afire Rs 30 lakh worth goods

Mangalore, Oct 12 (UNI) Four schools, run by the Ullal Mogaveera Sangha (Fishermen Association), had to bear the brunt of the recent violence in Ullal as a 500-strong group belonging to a particular community ransacked the school complex and set afire the materials stored there, causing a loss of Rs 30 lakh.

Sangha President Sadananda Dangera, who submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy here, told newspersons that the group, raising 'Jai Pakistan' slogans, ransacked the school complex on October six last. Besides causing damage to the complex, they set fire to the about Rs 30 lakh worth of school uniforms, books, pens and shoes stored in the complex.

He said the higher primary school, high school, English medium school and pre-university college at Mogaveerapatna near Mastikatte in Ullal in a single building complex with a total student strength of 2,000 were the only schools run by the fishermen community in the entire district. The group also attacked some houses belonging to the other community and misbehaved with women, he added.

Mr Dangera said he had urged the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister to take stringent action against the miscreants and compensate the losses. The act of attacking schools was not only heinous but also inhuman, he added.

Meanwhile, members of the same community had exhibited compassion and humanity in their efforts to save a woman, who had suffered a heart attack in her anxiety to reach home during the relaxed curfew period at Kotekar police limit on October six. The 60-year-old woman was returning home after selling fish at Ucchila when she suffered cardiac arrest. Members of the particular community immediately took her to a hospital. Though curfew was reimposed by the time they reached Kotekar, they convinced the police to allow the car to Thokkottu hospital. However, the woman was declared brought dead.

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