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| West Bengal hit by fresh clashes |
| There have been fresh clashes between the police and villagers in a village in eastern India where police fired on protesting farmers
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| INDIA
, 15-March-2007
4:55:2 AM |
| Fourteen people were killed and more than 70 injured during Wednesday's violence at Nandigram in West Bengal.
The farmers were protesting against government plans to set up a chemical hub and an industrial zone in the area.
Protests have gone on in Nandigram despite the state government pledging to move the hub elsewhere.
New economic zones are a hugely contentious issue in India.
The BBC's Soutik Biswas in Delhi says that what began as protests against the state takeover of farmland for industrial development has now turned into a trial of strength between farmers and the West Bengal government.
'Cold horror'
Nandigram remained tense on Thursday with the police using tear gas and staging baton charges to break up protests by angry villagers in the area.
Villagers also set fire to a local administration office and attacked policemen in front of the local hospital, which is teeming with relatives of the dead and injured.
The high court in Calcutta has ordered an investigation into the incident.
West Bengal chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya said 14 people had died and more than 70 people, including at least 30 policemen, had been injured in Wednesday's clashes.
The police action by the ruling Communist-led state government has been severely criticised by the ruling party's allies, the main opposition Trinamul Congress, and the state governor.
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