Kolkata, Dec 14 (TIWN) Violence broke out in West Bengal on Friday against the Citizenship Amendment Act as also a possible NRC exercise as protesters vandalised and set fire to railway stations, and squatted on the tracks and highways, disrupting train services and vehicular movement.

• The protesters carried posters against the CAA and the proposed National Register of Citizens   • They vandalised the Beldanga railway station of Eastern Railway, forcing the railway employees to flee to save their lives  • They also blockaded the track, disrupting train movement between Lalgola and Krishnanagar  • A large group of protesters obstructed the National highway at Beldanga, burning tyres and damaging vehicles, including an ambulance. 

• Vehicular traffic was halted at various points of the district, including Jalangi, Raghunathganj, Sahmserganj, Kandi, Baharampur and Domkal following road blockades in various points of the district.  • In Howrah district, angry protesters barged into the Uluberia station under South Eastern Railway and vandalised its premises as also a couple of trains.  • A driver as also a railway personnel were also injured by stones thrown by the protesters, a railway official said.  • The mob earlier blockaded the track, adversely hitting train movements on the Howrah-Kharagpur section on both up and down lines.  • The Howrah-Coromondol Express and the Howrah-Digha Kandari Express were damaged in the attack. 

• A number of long-distance trains including Falaknama Express, East Coast Express, Mumbai Duranta Express, Bhubaneswar Janshatabdi Express and eleven suburban trains were stranded in and around various stations , even as the protesters moved away from the tracks.