Septuagenarian recollects horrors of firing during VSP stir in 1967
The Hindu
Sankara Rao survived a bullet injury in his neck on Nov. 1
Boyapalli Sankara Rao (75), who retired as a senior engineer from Hindustan Shipyard Limited, is still unable to breathe, drink or eat as a normal person, as he suffered a bullet injury in his lower neck about 54 years ago.
The septuagenarian suffered the bullet injury on November 1, 1967, when he was in the forefront of the steel plant agitation that rocked the State and the country under the call ‘Visakha Ukku - Andhrula Hakku’. He was among the many injured on that day and about nine had fallen to the bullets fired by the police.
Recollecting the horrors of that day, Mr. Rao said that he was among the first to be hit in the police firing.
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