Flood victims clash with police in India, 30 hurt
PATNA, India (Reuters) - At least 30 people were injured in the flood-hit eastern Indian state of Bihar when they clashed with police demanding food and clothes, witnesses and officials said on Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of people are hungry and homeless in South Asia's worst flooding in decades, and have complained that help is yet to reach them, while local politicians and officials have been caught stealing meagre stocks of food.
Police used batons to disperse villagers fighting for food and relief material late on Friday in Begusarai and Nalanda districts of impoverished Bihar, vast swathes of which have been inundated by the annual monsoon rains.
Hungry flood victims protested on Saturday against the police action, forcing authorities to transfer some relief officials.
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