New Delhi, India (CNN)The death toll from India’s protests against the controversial new citizenship law has risen to 18 after 10 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest and most populous state on Friday.
Nine of the people died of gunshot wounds and the 10th victim was a child who died in the city of Varasani after being struck with a stone, according to Shirish Chand, an Uttar Pradesh police spokesman.
Three people were killed in protests in the cities of Mangalore and Lucknow on Thursday. Last week, five people died in north-eastern Assam state when protests there first erupted.
