India: at least eight dead after farm protesters attack minister’s convoy

Violence flared when junior government minister Ajay Mishra visited the Lakhimpur Kheri district in Uttar Pradesh

At least eight people have been killed in northern India after clashes broke out at a farmers’ protest, officials told local media, in a deadly escalation of their year-long campaign against controversial agriculture laws.

The farmers had gathered for a demonstration on Sunday in Uttar Pradesh state’s Lakhimpur Kheri district, where the junior home affairs minister, Ajay Mishra, and the state’s deputy chief minister, Keshav Prasad Maurya, had been due to visit.

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