Police baton-charge people at flour sale point.

MANSEHRA -- The Oghi police on Saturday baton-charged a crowd, which stormed a truck loaded with subsidised wheat flour bags and pelted its driver and policemen with stones.

The stampede erupted after people lined up to purchase flour bags raised slogans against the government and broke the queue.

They also started pelting stones at the truck driver and policemen, who retaliated and started baton charging the unruly people.

The driver in the meantime managed to rush the flour-loaded truck to the assistant commissioner's office in Oghi.

Later, the deputy commissioner changed the distribution schedule of the subsidised flour and dispatched the...

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