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• Mangalore: City Wears Gloomy Look as Bundh Advances [Updates at 01.00pm] Report & Pictures
• Mangalore: Violence Strikes City as Bundh Begins Updates at 9.00am IST with Pictures

Mangalore, Mar 10: [8 pm IST] The daylong bundh which affected normal life in the district gradually withdrew itself as life returned to normalcy. As the day advanced to a close, shops and commercial establishments gradually began their business. People who confined themselves to their houses throughout the day moved out freely into the streets.

However private buses did not resume their services.

Grocery shops, eateries and roadside fast food counters took up normal business amidst police vigil.

Crowds were seen in parks and in popular hangouts of the city.

Auto rickshaws made a good business, as they were the only source of public transport after the government buses.

Baring a few instances in the morning, no instances of violence have been reported so far.

Updates at 9.00am IST, March 10

Daijiworld News Network – Mangalore (GA) – Pics – Dayanand Kukkaje

Mangalore, Mar 10: [IST 9.00 am] As expected the bundh called by the Rashtriya Hindu Sene began with incidents of stone pelting and violence in the outskirts of the city on Friday March 10 morning.

Miscreants burnt tyres, blocked roads and even pelt stones on vehicles in several places of the city during the wee hours of the day.

Padil, Bajal, Yekkur, Alape and Kannur were the areas where incidents of violence were reported. While a tree was set on fire near Padil Railway Gate, tyres were burnt at Yekkur.

The fire services were rushed to Yekkur to extinguish fire. Roads were blocked by placing pipes and dust bins on the roads.

Stones were pelted at a KSRTC bus, two buses coming from Bangalore and a lorry near Kannur over bridge.

All the incidents of violence were reported between 4 am and 6 am.  Our photographer Dayanand Kukkaje was on the spot right in the wee hours to get some exclusive pictures for our readers.