Kanhangad, October 11: Police lobbed grenades and used tear gas to quell the violent mobs as two groups of people unleashed violence in the town on Tuesday.
The agitating mob attacked shops and burned vehicles in the town and adjacent areas.
A prohibitory order was also clamped under three police stations of Bekal, Ambalathara and Kanhangad.
Several houses and shops were stoned following clashes which started on Monday to protest the burning of an auto-rickshaw of a DYFI activist in the wee hours of Monday.
What started as clashes between the IUML and the DYFI activists spread to other areas as two groups of people took to violence blocking the vehicular traffic and burning vehicles.
As many as nine vehicles including a school bus were burned by the miscreants who also stoned several houses in the town.
The traders announced the indefinite closure of shops in protest against the attack on shops and business establishments.
The police resorted to lathi-charge , lobbing of grenades and bursting of teargas to quell the mobs, but violence continued unabated.
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