India, Dec. 23 -- A mob in Assam's West Karbi Anglong district on Monday set fire to the ancestral home of Tuliram Ronghang, a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and the chief of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC), triggering widespread violence and prompting authorities to impose curfew-like restrictions across the districts.

The arson followed clashes between protesters and security forces over demands for eviction of alleged encroachers from protected grazing lands. At least three protesters were injured after police resorted to blank firing to disperse the crowd, while a CRPF jawan was also hurt during the violence, officials said.

Several houses, shops and public properties were vandalised or torched in parts of Kheroni ...