Police firing kills 6, Jayalalithaa fights criticism
A bus parked on an empty road with its scorched insides. Slippers lying near a rubble that's still smoking. Streets full of shops that have not opened for business on a Monday. This is Paramakudi today, a small town in Ramanathapuram district (a ten hour drive from Chennai in Tamil Nadu.) Six people have died since last afternoon when the police opened fire on a violent mob.
