Dozens of people were injured when a clash broke out between police and locals in Mirchiya Municipality of Siraha on Thursday. The locals have been staging demonstrations for the past few days after the municipality demolished their houses. The locals had tried to picket the municipality office this afternoon.

The protesters had said that Mayor Shrawan Yadav should answer the issues raised by them.

They started pelting stones after Mayor Yadav did not come out of the office. DSP Rabindra Raj Pandey, who is also the spokesperson of the District Police Office, Siraha, said that police fired 27 rounds of bullets into the air to take the situation under control. A few days ago, the municipality demolished 37 houses in the village block land. In which, Mayor Yadav claimed that the municipality had vacated the land owned by the government. The locals, however, said that they had been living in the village block land for generations.