An angry crowd on Thursday set ablaze a police post in Agra's Tajganj area after vandalising it,looting laptops and wireless sets and beating up policemen, injuring two of them following the death of a man in a road accident.
The police had to make heavy deployment of force to control and chase away the rampaging mob, said Inspector General of Police A Satish Ganesh of Agra police range.
Ganesh said a youth was earlier severely injured in the morning after his tractor-trailer overturned in the district.
He was hospitalised but died during the treatment after which an angry mob with some miscreants attacked Tora police post under Tajganj police station area and set it afire, he said.