Police, on Thursday, baton-charged a group of protesting teachers and attacked them with tear-gas as they tried to march towards the Chief Minister (CM) House.
According to the reports, the government teachers held a protest outside Karachi Press Club to demand increases in their salaries. They were fired with tear gas shells when the protestors started marching. Several protesters were said to be injured and taken to the hospital.
Meanwhile, the condition of one teacher was stated to be critical whereas many of them had been arrested by the police.
Earlier, Karachi police fired water cannon and resorted to baton-charge and tear-gas to prevent the protesting teachers from moving towards the CM House to lodge their protest.
The teachers were protesting for the fulfilment of a host of their demands. Some of these demands had been already agreed to by the provincial authorities.
As teachers arrived at the scheduled time at the Karachi Press Club and tried to proceed onwards, the police deployed at surrounding roads baton-charged them, fired tear gas shells and used water cannon; causing injuries to some protesting teachers. During the police action, scores of the protesters were also detained.
