GUWAHATI, Sept 30: Ten students were killed and 90 people injured on Friday when police opened fire during two separate clashes with thousands of protesters in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, an official said.

The incidents occurred in the towns of Tura and Williamnagar when thousands of students staged violent protests against plans to move a school education board to the state capital Shillong from Tura, the official said.

The issue has been simmering for a month or so, with almost daily protests. Police opened fire on a crowd of about 1,000 students in Tura after they began throwing stones at them and refused to disperse despite a baton charge and water canons before opening fire.—AFP