A team of doctors and medical staff were attacked by a mob in Moradabad’s Nawabganj area in UP when they went to take a person suspected of COVID-19.
Moradabad: Some people pelted stones at medical team&police which had gone to take a person possibly infected with #COVID.”When our team boarded ambulance with patient,suddenly crowd emerged&started pelting stones.Some doctors are still there.We are injured,”says ambulance driver pic.twitter.com/Rpo5jDRuJY
— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) April 15, 2020
The mob apparently also pelted stones on the police officials who came to rescue the health workers.
After the incident, the police has detained 10 people. The accused have been booked under the National Security Act and UP CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered strict action against those involved in the incident.
He also criticised the attack in a series of tweets.
मुरादाबाद में पुलिस, स्वास्थ्य एवं स्वच्छता अभियान से जुड़े कर्मियों पर हमला एक अक्षम्य अपराध है, जिसकी घोर निंदा की जाती है।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) April 15, 2020
ऐसे दोषी व्यक्तियों के खिलाफ आपदा प्रबंधन अधिनियम तथा राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा अधिनियम (NSA) के तहत कार्रवाई की जाएगी।
दोषियों द्वारा की गई राजकीय संपत्ति के नुकसान की भरपाई उनसे सख्ती से की जाएगी।
— Yogi Adityanath (@myogiadityanath) April 15, 2020
जिला पुलिस प्रशासन ऐसे उपद्रवी तत्वों को तत्काल चिन्हित करे और प्रत्येक नागरिक को सुरक्षा के साथ ही उपद्रवी तत्वों पर पूरी सख्ती भी करें।
This is not the first incident of health workers being attacked by a mob. Similar incident happened in Indore, when some health workers, who had gone to collect the samples of coronavirus suspects were attacked by a mob.
