Indian police detain 62 protesters
Indian police detained 62 protesters calling for a cleanup of the 1984 Bhopal industrial disaster as they demonstrated near the prime minister's official residence, an organizer said.Some of the protesters had walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a toxic gas leak at a pesticide plant in the central city of Bhopal that killed at least 10,000 people and affected about 550,000 others, said Madhumita Dutta, a spokeswoman for the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
Key anti-government protesters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship on Saturday denounced the deadly attacks taking place late Friday and after midnight Saturday morning, killing two police officers and wounding 13 other persons.