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CALCUTTA, India (AP) - Farmers angry over plans to build an industrial park on their land torched a government office Thursday in a second day of unrest in eastern India that has claimed 14 lives.

Police responded with baton-charges and tear gas, dispersing protesters who quickly regrouped elsewhere.

The clashes mirrored earlier violence in the Nandigram area, which in January prompted the federal government to suspend plans to establish scores of Special Economic Zones to attract overseas investors with generous tax breaks.

Most of the zones, including the ... Read more

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Slain woman's family upset by

CHICAGO: A slain woman's relatives were upset by the way police handled a 23-hour standoff in her apartment building that ended with a gunman killing the 22-year-old and himself.

Negotiators had tried for hours to coax Lance Johnson, 21, to release his hostage and end the standoff Thursday, said First Deputy Superintendent Dana Starks. But SWAT team members ended up rushing the third-floor apartment after the sound of a gunshot around 1 a.m. on Friday, he said.

"We have protocols and procedures we had been following," Starks said without elaborating. "At no time did the Chicago Police Department fire a weapon."

Frustrated relatives and neighbors said police should have done more to end the standoff. A group of about 10 people angrily questioned police who arrived at the apartment on Friday afternoon.

"I think police could have gotten more control of the situation and could have gotten there before," said Donzell McKinzie, 23, whose sister Tasha Cooks was killed. "We've just been crying all day."

Police said Cooks and Johnson were the only people in the apartment Thursday, which was the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., but have not said whether they knew each other. Family members said they were neighbors.

Police Superintendent Phil Cline had said police sent up cigarettes and soft drinks to the gunman as they negotiated with him by phone.

"We're angry," said India Cooks, 30, the woman's cousin. "They (police) talked to him," she said. "He (Johnson) assured us he wouldn't kill her. He said, 'All I want is a cigarette and some soda pop.' He said, 'I'm not going to hurt her.'"

During the standoff, Cooks, a nursing home worker, was able to call family members. She told them she was being beaten by her captor, her brother said.

 

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