With the Police Headquarters adjacent to the secretariat, reinforcements soon arrived and the building was put under lockdown. The revolutionaries managed to evade the responders for Some time but were eventually cornered on the second-floor verandah. Thus, "The Statesman" termed this fight between the trio and the police force as the "corridor warfare". What followed was a short and bloody skirmish as police swarmed into the verandah from both ends. Senior European officers like McGregor, Twynam, Prentice, Nelson, and Gresham suffered injuries during the shooting.