Rival Groups Turn Dera Bassi Hospital Into Battleground

Hospital staff lock themselves, patients flee for cover as rivals brazenly unleash attack with surgical tools, chairs, queue managers; 8 arrested

- HT Correspondent

MOHALI: In a shocking display of lawlessness and disregard for human life, two groups of men launched a violent attack on each other inside the Dera Bassi civil hospital on Friday night.

What began as a street brawl between two groups in Mukandpur village over an old rivalry escalated into a full-blown affray at the hospital, turning a place of healing into a bloody battleground.

The accused, identified as Anil Kumar, alias Honey, Naresh Kumar, Naib Ram, Angrej Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Mahipal and Manish Kumar, all from Mukandpur village, reportedly spotted each other during treatment at the hospital after an earlier altercation at their village.

What followed was sheer mayhem, captured by shocked onlookers on their mobile phones.