Kozhikode
The ongoing protests against the proposed semi-high-speed SilverLine project turned hostile in several parts of the State on Tuesday, resulting in clashes between affected people and the police, arrests, road blockades and suicide threats.
A clash broke out between the police and anti-K-Rail protesters at Mathottam on the outskirts of Kozhikode city after the latter tried to stop government officials from laying survey stones for the project. Local residents interfered and tried to stop the officials as they turned up unannounced to lay the stones on a house compound near the Meenchanda railway gate in the morning.