2 students injured in knife attack

February 24, 2017 01:02 am | Updated 01:02 am IST - CHennai

Police on Thursday investigated a case relating to attack on two college students by a group of students from another college.

According to police, Ajay and Naveenkumar, students at a college on Kamarajar Salai in Chennai were returning home in an EMU train in Tiruvallur district on Wednesday. When the train reached Atthipet, a gang of 10 students from another college, who followed the duo, attacked with knives on the train itself.

Even after the train stopped at the station, the gang chased them and inflicted several injuries on them and fled the spot.

Passengers and onlookers rescued the two injured students. They were admitted to Government Stanley Hospital.

Government Railway Police, Korukkupet registered a case and conducted further investigation.

Stones hurled at bus

In a separate incident, college students hurled stones on a MTC bus in Perambur on Thursday. When the bus, bound to Tiruverkadu from Perambur, was about to start with 20 passengers, a few students stopped the bus and quarrelled with the bus driver for not stopping the bus near Pachiyappa’s College on Wednesday.

The students hurled stones and damaged the front windshield. None was injured in the incident.

Sembium police have registered case.

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