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five more farmers have been killed in police firing while protesting against water scarcity. Over 20 were injured, many seriously, on June 13, 2005 at Sohela village in Tonk district, when about 3,000 villagers blocked national highway 12, which links Jaipur to Kota. They were demanding water from Bisalpur dam, located on the Banas river at about 120 kilometres (km) from Jaipur. In a similar incident seven months ago, four farmers were killed in Ganganagar district demanding more water for irrigation (see Down To Earth,
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