By: Keerthi Mohan
Thousands mourned in southern India on Tuesday (7) after the death of revered 94-year-old political leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi. But tensions were high with local television showing footage of agitated mourners attacking police barricades and chanting loud slogans demanding a prime beach-side burial site in Chennai for the late leader. Karunanidhi, a charismatic self-styled champion of the poor, had been in intensive care since July 28 in the capital of Tamil Nadu state. A big crowd had thronged the streets outside the hospital since his hospitalisation but it swelled to some 6,000 on Tuesday, an AFP photographer estimated, after doctors said he…
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