Indian Police Open Fire On Crowd Of Monsoon Refugees - Reuters

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JAHMEDABAD, India - "Police fired at a stone-throwing crowd of people demanding food and medicine in eastern India as large parts of the flood-hit nation braced for more monsoon rains, officials said yesterday.

A man died and two women were wounded in the police firing late this week on a 5,000-strong crowd, which gathered outside a government office near Patna, the capital of Bihar state, expecting food to be distributed to flood victims.

"When the crowd realized that no relief was to be distributed, they attacked the office and stoned the police station," K. A. H. Subramanian, chief secretary of Bihar, one of India's poorest and most lawless states said.

More than 1,600 people have been killed in South Asia, most of them in Bangladesh and eastern India, in several weeks of torrential monsoon rains in one of the world's most densely populated regions."

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