Police resorted to air firing to suppress a mob of irate locals who 'gheraoed' the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police over breach of an embankment by overflowing Ghaghra river in Sant Kabir Nagar and staged heavy protest on the issue.
According to reports, DM Dr Indraveer Singh Yadav and SP Piyush Srivastava, on Thursday reached the site to inspect the situation and pacify the people who had assembled there. Suddenly the mob went berserk and surrounded the DM and SP put a condition to let them go after they resolve their problem. This led to a verbal spat and some of the angry locals tried even to manhandle the
officials while other their companions raised slogans against the state machinery for it apathy in resolving their grievances. later the furious mob started to throw stones upon the officials and some of the angry mob vandalized their official vehicles in the ambush. Seeing the situation going out of control, the officials sought help from senior officials and an additional number of police force was dispatched to the scene. The police had to resort to air firing to control the protestors who were going unruly. luckily, no one was hurt in the incident.