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Eight killed in inter-gang rivalry in Bihar PATNA, India, July 3 (AFP) At least eight people were killed and three injured overnight in a clash between two rival gangs in India's lawless eastern state of Bihar, police said Saturday. A police spokesman said a group of people raided Chakwai village in Bihar's Nawada district, 175 kilometres (around 110 miles) from state capital Patna Friday night and fired indiscriminately on a group of villagers sitting outside their homes killing eight on the spot. Three others who were injured have been admitted to a local hospital, where doctors said they were in a critical state, the police spokesman said. Police said the shooting was the result of rivalry between two groups - one led by a local criminal named Akhilesh Singh, representing the interests of Bihar's landowning classes and the other headed by rival Ashok Mahto. All the victims were Kurmis, a low strata in the Hindu caste hierarchy and supporters of the Mahto gang, the police spokesman said. Police said the attack Friday night was in retaliation for Mahto's gang killing two members of Singh's group in a recent blast. Over 100 people have lost their lives in internecine rivalry in the Nawada district in the past decade, police said. Bihar, with a population of more than 80 million, reports 5,000 murders, 12,000 robberies and hundreds of abductions for ransom on an average year. |
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