TOBA TEK SINGH, Nov 23: Several students of the Government Degree College in Gojra suffered minor injuries when police baton-charged them to stop them from damaging buses on Wednesday. According to reports, scores of students took out a procession to register their protest against the killing of their fellow Waqas who, they said, had fallen from a bus after being pushed by conductor.

They reached the general bus stand and damaged several buses and wagons. Police baton-charged the students, who suffered minor injuries.

Later, some accomplices of transporters chased a group of students and injured them. Police took a dozen students into custody.

killed: A seventh-class student and his uncle were run over and killed by a bus on the Toba-Chichawatni Road, about 26 kilometres from here, on Wednesday.

Reports said Abdul Manaan, who studied at the Government High School Kot Khitran, and his uncle Muhammad Altaf were on their way to Kamalia to bring fruit for qul of the latter’s father by a bicycle. Near the Kamalia Sugar Mills link road, their two-wheeler was run over by a speeding bus (1276-Karachi), killing both the riders. The driver and conductor fled from the scene.

The bodies were handed over to the family after autopsy from Rajana rural health centre.

Rajana police have registered a case.