NOWSHEHRA: At least five workers of two political parties including BJP candidate for Nowshera were injured when the supporters of BJP and PDP clashed with each other in Lambari area on Friday night.
Eyewitnesses said that the supporters of both the political parties attacked each other with stones and sticks while some of them smashed the windowpanes of the vehicles belonging to rival parties.
A police official said that some supporters of a political party attacked the cavalcade of a candidate when it was passing through Lambari area. Among the five injured persons, three belonged to BJP and rest were PDP workers, he said adding that BJP candidate Ravinder Raina also suffered minor injuries during the clash.
“A First Information report No 197 of 2014 has been registered against PDP workers in in Police Station Noushera,” SSP, Rajouri Mohmmad Haseeb said.
No one has so far been arrested, SSP said, adding that five persons including three workers of BJP and two of PDP were injured, and that action would be taken against the two PDP workers once they are out of the hospital.
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