In the midst of the rioting at Secunderabad railway station on Friday, 22-year-old L. Vinay ran towards an ambulance parked nearby, tightly cupping his chest. A part of his olive-green shirt was soaked in blood, as a viral video clip shows. The clip was shot by a person inside the ambulance and has Vinay narrating about why was he protesting and ‘fired’ at.
A few minutes after getting injured, Vinay rang up his brother, Naveen, who was having lunch. “He said he had been hit by a bullet and asked me to come to the hospital. I dropped everything and ran,” says Mr Naveen, recalling the course of events after his brother was injured.
Vinay is undergoing treatment at Gandhi Hospital. Superintendent of the health facility, M. Raja Rao has said no bullet was found in the bodies of any of the protesters admitted at the hospital, but pellets were found in some of them.
