Thread by @DevjyotGhoshal

On Sunday, police smashed their way into the main library of #JamiaMilliaIslamia, firing tear gas shells as terrified students barricaded doors and hid inside bathrooms to protect themselves.

“It was a night of horrors," one student said.

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Video footage shot by a student inside the library and reviewed by Reuters shows dozens of young students - including several women - scrambling for cover, cowering beneath desks, and jumping over metal and broken glass dividers as they attempted to flee.

My colleagues @sankalp_sp @aftabahmed00 and @zebatweets also spoke to several students trapped inside the campus to piece together what happened.

“There were continuous sounds of tear gas,” one student told us. “They were just beating any students they saw so cruelly.”

Police said some vandals did manage to enter Jamia and officers only followed them into the campus after they were pelted with stones from inside the university.

But a university official told Reuters there were only students inside when police started firing tear gas.

On Monday, sections of university library lay in ruins. Windows were smashed, chairs lay broken and scattered. Crushed glass covered corridors and tables.

Reuters witnesses saw tear gas shells and blood splattered on the library floor. Two surveillance cameras lay smashed.

With tear gas canisters exploding inside, second-year student Mohammad Shahzad said some ran to the washrooms to hide or wash their eyes with water.

“But police dragged them out and beat them up,” he said.

Some bathroom doors inside the library building lay smashed on Monday.

Hisham Siddiqui, a doctorate student, said he was inside a mosque on the university campus when more than a dozen police burst in.

“They smashed the glass doors and entered inside,” he said, heavily bandaged and seated in a wheelchair outside Alshifa hospital on Sunday night.

Here is the full @ReutersIndia story:

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