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At least three tribals were killed, and eight policemen injured in a bloody clash between tribals and police in Nabarangpur district in Orissa, police sources said.
The sources said the clash took place on Tuesday evening at Ranagabatti village, when the police was trying to pacify the tribals, who were agitated on the issue of illegal migrants from Bangladesh.
While police have recovered one body of a tribal, two other bodies were missing. Several tribals injured in the police firing were rushed to the government hospital at Raigarh, the sources added.
The Director General of Police N C Padhi said eight platoons of armed police have been deployed in the village.
"The policemen were forced to fire when tribals started getting violent," Padhi said.
In the clash one policeman lost his one eye.
Almost 4000 tribals, led by local secretary of Dalil Samaj Sukhdev Gond, armed with bows and arrows and country made guns marched towards Rangabhati and demanded the illegal migrants leave immediately.
They threatened to set the houses of the Bengali settlers on fire.
This is the second time in the last few months that violent clash broken out in Raigarh over long standing land dispute between tribals and Bengali migrants.
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