Agnipath protests: One dead, several injured amid violence and arson at Secunderabad railway station

One youngster died, another is critical, and several others were injured after Telangana police allegedly opened fire on hundreds of protesters at Secunderabad railway station on Friday morning as agitations against the Centre’s new Agnipath scheme for recruiting soldiers across the three services escalated into large-scale violence and arson.

Hundreds of protesters, most of them with their faces covered with handkerchiefs, thronged the Secunderabad railway station Friday morning at around 9 am, demanding long-term Army recruitment instead of the new four-year period of service.