{"id":37617,"date":"2021-10-04T10:42:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T01:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/india-at-least-eight-dead-after-farm-protesters-attack-ministers-convoy"},"modified":"2021-10-04T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T13:40:03","slug":"india-at-least-eight-dead-after-farm-protesters-attack-ministers-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37617","title":{"rendered":"India: nine people die in farmers\u2019 protests against new laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conflicting accounts about how violence broke out around convoy of minister Ajay Mishra<\/p>\n<p>Nine people have been killed in violent clashes during a protest by hundreds of farmers in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in a deadly escalation of year-long demonstrations against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/06\/farmers-block-roads-across-india-in-protest-over-agriculture-law\">contentious agriculture laws.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The farmers had gathered for a demonstration on Sunday in Lakhimpur Kheri district, where the junior home affairs minister Ajay Mishra and the state\u2019s deputy chief minister, Keshav Prasad Maurya, were due to visit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/india-at-least-eight-dead-after-farm-protesters-attack-ministers-convoy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conflicting accounts about how violence broke out around convoy of minister Ajay MishraNine people have been killed in violent clashes during a protest by hundreds of farmers in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in a deadly escalation of year-lo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,653,62,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-farming","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37655,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37617\/revisions\/37655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}