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15 dead in clashes as sect evicted in India: police

NEW DELHI, (APP/AFP) – Fifteen people have been killed in clashes which erupted when Indian police moved to evict members of a sect from land they had been illegally occupying for the last two years, an officer said Friday.
Two police officers were among those killed in the violence which erupted late Thursday during an operation to expel around 3,000 followers of the sect who were camped out in a park in the northern city of Mathura.