The
protests outside New Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University on Thursday started out small and relatively low-key - another show of anger by students who oppose a citizenship law they say discriminates against Muslims.
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Waving the small handgun in the air, he taunted the demonstrators, and as both
protesters and
police converged towards him to try and calm the situation, he fired a single shot at a man later identified as Shadab Farooq.
"As the protests started, there was no immediate threat so I was moving towards the police line and it was just like a regular day," said Danish Siddiqui, Reuters' chief photographer in
India who took several pictures of the gunman.