HYDERABAD (India), July 28: Eight people were killed in southern India on Saturday after police started firing on protesters demanding land for the poor, police said. Communist parties called the protest in Andhra Pradesh to demand land and houses for the impoverished in the area.

“Six persons died in police firing while a woman died when police hit her with batons in Khammam district,” senior police officer A.K Mohanty said.

Another person was killed after being crushed under an ambulance that was rushing the injured to hospital in Khammam district, 350 kms east of state capital Hyderabad, officials said.—AFP