Posted on 04/13/2006 1:53:48 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
POLICE opened fire in India's technology hub today, killing four people as tens of thousands of fans mourning the death of a film icon torched vehicles and attacked company offices.
Police said that an officer was earlier beaten to death as film actor Rajkumar's cortege made its way through the streets of Bangalore. One man died of bullet wounds after police opened fire in self-defence when mobs attacked their bus.
Three people were killed after the funeral as police fired at a mob enraged at not being able to attend the service.
The body of the 77-year-old actor, who died yesterday after a heart attack, was buried with state honours at a film studio owned by his family on the city's outskirts.
Violent mourners clashed with police, set vehicles on fire and damaged shops along the route of the procession. Hundreds of fans threw flower petals as the body was lowered into the grave.
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starting to make an Irish Wake look good ;)
They seem to take their actors very seriously in India.
Hope this doesn't happen when ole Clooney goes.
It is a highly emotional culture. To that, add a certain lack of respect for laws, adulation bordering on fanatacism that makes FR Reagan-worship tame by comparison, and you have this nonsense.
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