Mumbai Police baton-charge on mob defying lockdown at Bandra Station
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MUMBAI: Mumbai Police opened ‘lathi charge’ on protesting mob gathered outside the Bandra Station against extension of the lockdown, NDTV reported.
Mumbai, the city with the biggest number of coronavirus cases, became the site of a huge protest this afternoon as hordes of migrant workers gathered outside the Bandra station and protested against the extension of the lockdown.
Video footage from the area showed thousands of people jostling, giving a go by to government warnings about coronavirus and social distancing.
Most demanded that they be allowed to go home. Sources said the crowd also had people from the nearby slums, who came in search of food. When the crowd ignored several warnings to disperse, batons were used, the police said.
The visuals – reminiscent of the huge migrant exodus outside the inter-state bus stations in Delhi after the lockdown was declared for the first time – raised questions about how such a huge crowd gathered despite multiple containment zones in the city. It also raised concern about further spread of the virus –Mumbai has seen more than 1,500 cases of COVID-19, more than half of the 2,300-plus cases in Maharashtra.
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