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HYDERABAD, India (AP) - Police opened fire on stone-throwing communist protesters in southern India, killing at least eight, officials said Sunday.
The protest, held Saturday in Mudigonda, a small village in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, was called by two Indian communist parties as part of a campaign to press the government to give land to the poor.
As police approached a tent under which protesters were gathering, they were pelted with stones. The police responded by opening fire, said the state's home minister, K. Jana Reddy.
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