“Sangrur: One farmer dead, several cops injured after tractor-trolley driven by protesting farmers goes on a rampage, incident caught on camera”, Opindia, August 22, 2023:

“A farmer lost his life and seven policemen were injured during protests by farmers in the Longowal area of Sangrur on 21st August, Monday. The farmers in the area were staging protests in demand for financial compensation to flood-hit farmers. The stir was ongoing for the last several days. The deceased farmer has been identified as 70-year-old Pritam Singh.

Tensions were heightened following a clash between the police and the protesting farmers who were going to participate in a stir in Chandigarh. They clashed with the police after the latter tried to stop them from proceeding to block a road and a toll plaza near Badbar village on the Sangrur-Barnala highway. The police clarified that no lathi-charge was done by them.

The police said that the farmer died due to rash driving by protesters. “Unfortunate death of a protester today at Longowal, it is clarified that as per witnesses & videos the deceased was overrun by a rashly driven tractor trolley by protesters, which also severely injured a police inspector who narrowly escaped from getting crushed. Our condolences,” the Sangrur police wrote on its Twitter account…..”

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