“We have got reports of one person being killed. He was injured in the clash and we had sent him to hospital. He was declared brought dead,” Raha Circle Officer Pallavi Kachary said.
The administration is, however, yet to ascertain the exact cause of the protester's death, she said.
Kachary said the protesters went on a rampage here in Nagaon district and smashed many government vehicles. They also damaged the circle office building and other installations.
“In the clash, at least 20 people are injured although we cannot verify the exact number at this moment,” she said.Protesters have, however, claimed that more than 50 of them were injured.
Nagaon Superintendent of Police Yshey Tshewang Gyatso said the deceased was injured when he fell down while running and people ran over him and he died later.
Trouble began in the morning when about 2,000 people under the aegis of a newly formed body blocked NH-37 here to press for their demand for setting up of an AIIMS instead of at Changsari in Kamrup.
“The highway is the only link between lower and upper Assam and other NE states. So we had requested them (the protestors) to at least clear the highway so that traffic could move. However, they did not listen and started throwing stones at us,” Gyatso said.