Agnipath' Protests Intensify, Trains Set On Fire In Bihar, UP: 10 Facts Several parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have

Trains were set afire, public and police vehicles attacked in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar amid protests against the new recruitment scheme for the defence forces that has set off a firestorm.

In Uttar Pradesh, a mob entered a railway station in Ballia this morning and set a train on fire, and also damaged railway station property before the police used force to disperse them. Another group of protesters carrying sticks argued with the police on the streets outside the railway station in the eastern UP district. Videos of the protest show young men with lathis breaking shops and benches at the railway station. "The police managed to stop the mob from large-scale damage. We will act against the men," Ballia District Magistrate Saumya Agarwal told reporters.