villagers pay tragic price as indian building boom drives demand for sand /

Published at 2017-12-30 23:00:11

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final May three men from one family were shot dead,victims of the violence that has spread as local people protest against minersWe didn’t know they had guns,” Santosh Yadav says. “whether we knew they had so many guns – that they were planning to commit a massacre – we would never have argued with them.”Months later Yadav still replays the morning of 19 May in his mind. The decision he made with his uncle and cousins to go to the riverbank. To confront the men mining sand near his village. Not to dash when the miners went to their vehicles and returned with guns.
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Source: guardian.co.uk

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