FOOD SHORTAGE IN BOMBAY
DEMONSTRATORS SHOT BY POLICE 7 p.m.) BOMBAY, October 13. The police to-day killed two persons and injured three others when they took action against mobs demonstrating against scarcities and high Drices. After four cases of looting had been reported armed police pickets and radio-equipped police vans patrolled the city. Grocers’ shops were entered by crowds protesting against the scarcity anc. the abnormally high prices of sugar and salt. In one northern suburb the police opened fire to disperse a crowd which pelted stones at the shops and threatened to loot stocks of sugar, salt, and other goods. It was there that the casualties occurred. The mob violence followed a week of acute scarcity of sugar and a series of demonstrations by housewives.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25935, 15 October 1949, Page 7
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