NALBARI, Jan 19 –About ten thousand people today demonstrated before the St Joseph English Medium School at Nagrizuli under Tamulpur Police Station in and set the school building and a church situated in the school campus afire in protest against the alleged conversion of Hindu people into the Christianity by missionaries of this school in the locality.Although no one has been injured in the incident, a tense situation has prevailed in the area. The school children were not present today when the local people attacked the school.According to the police sources, the irate mob gathered at the school at around 8.30 am shouting slogans against the missionaries and pelting stones at the school. Some of the agitated people then set the school building and the the church afire. A police team immediately rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
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