Chandigarh, April 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) At least 30 people were arrested on Tuesday in a village near Haryana's Ambala town on charges of attacking healthcare employees, police said.
A day earlier a group of people of Chandpura village allegedly tried to disrupt the last rites of a woman who was suspected to have succumbed to COVID-19.
The villagers feared that the virus would spread in the area with her cremation. In retaliation, they pelted policemen and health workers with stones and bricks.
In the scuffle, a few policemen and the Deputy Superintendent of Police were injured.
Later the crowd was pacified with the assurance that there was risk of the virus spread, a police officer said.
The woman died at the Civil Hospital in Ambala Cantonment.
The suspects have been booked under the amended Epidemic Diseases Act.
Source: IANS
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