PATNA, Jan. 30 -- Three persons, including two women, were shot dead while a youth was injured in separate incidents at Patna and Vaishali, police said on Friday. Two people allegedly died in a dispute over merely two inches of land.

In one incident that occurred at Rasulpur village under Fatuha police station at around 7.30am, a man fired indiscriminately over a land dispute reportedly over "two inches of land" in which his aunt, cousin and a passerby received bullet injuries. The woman identified as Rajmantri Devi and passerby identified as Deo Sagar Singh died while Rajmantri's son was undergoing treatment in the Patna Medical College Hospital.

The police said that the woman died on the spot while Deo Sagar succumbed to his injury on...