Mangalore, April 6, 2012 : Some unidentified miscreants threw stones at the people who had gathered for the Maundy Thursday rituals at St. Sebastian Church in Bendore.
Claret Pinto (46), who was present with her chidren, was hit on her head and had to be rushed to Colaco Hospital immediately.
M. Muthuraya, the deputy commissioner of police (law and order) said that it was a minor incident in which a small stone was thrown.
The police, who immediately arrived on the scene, said that they cannot say where the stone was thrown from, but it could have been thrown from outside the church compound.
Oscar Fernandes, the Rajya Sabha MP, visited the injured in hospital.