India, July 17 -- One person was killed and two others injured on Thursday morning after police opened fire during a clash with evicted settlers in Assam's Goalpara district, police said. Fifteen police and forest officers were injured too.

A large-scale eviction drive was carried out by the state government between July 8 and 12 in the Goalpara and Dhubri districts, during which alleged illegal houses on forest and government land were demolished.

According to police officers, a plantation programme - a post-eviction initiative by the district administration - was organised in the Paikan Reserve Forest area. A mob, allegedly former settlers, attacked the officers with stones and sticks, damaging machinery including excavators.

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