Cops try to quell riot over flood aid in Bihar: 2 die
At least two people died Monday as police fired on villagers who accused the government of not supplying aid to cope with deadly floods in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police said.
Riot police opened fire on some 500 villagers who ransacked a railway station and threw stones at relief officials in Lohna village in Bihar's flood-hit Darbhanga district, said A.N Jha, spokesman of the Railway Protection Force.
There were conflicting reports on the toll.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Jha said four villagers and a relief official died and that over 24 villagers were injured in the stampede for supplies and police firing.
But local police chief Sunil Kumar said only two people had died in the melee.
Kumar said state officials were distributing food and other items to flood victims at the Lohna railroad station when they were attacked.
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