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Three people were killed and nine injured when police opened fire on Monday to quell a rampaging mob of flood victims who had partially burnt the police station.
Opposition leader in the assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party leader S K Modi condemned the firing and demanded stringent action against the officials responsible for it.
Samata Party spokesman P K Sinha charged the state government with committing irregularities in providing relief materials to the flood-affected people. The government must institute a high-level inquiry into the firing and book the officials responsible for the 'inhuman' act, he said.
State Janata Dal-United general secretary Laxmi Sahu claimed that more than eight people had lost their lives in the police action and demanded that government provide an ex-gratia payment of Rs 500,000 to dependents of each of the deceased.
Communist Party of India-ML (liberation) has called for a bandh in Muzaffarpur on Wednesday to protest against the firing.
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