Anti-Sterlite protest: Tamil Nadu HC orders govt to preserve bodies of dead

Forces have been deployed after a bus was set ablaze outside Thoothukudi's General Hospital, where the injured from Tuesday's protests were being treated

One more person was killed in fresh police firing on Wednesday as the killing of 11 people protesting against the Sterlite Copper Smelting plant a day earlier sparked calls for the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister's resignation.

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday transferred Tuticorin district collector and Superintendent of Police as fresh violence rocked the port city.

The authorities suspended internet in the districts of Thoothukudi or Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari as a precaution to stop the spread of rumours and graphic pictures and videos of the violence and clashes between the protesters and police.

But the town continued