One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said.
A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
The protest turned violent after demonstrators, waving flags and shouting slogans, tried to storm the municipal offices. They then clashed with riot police who tried to beat back the crowds with bamboo batons.
The injured were taken to hospital. One of them, a man, was "brought dead," the news agency said.
Police said the man died of a heart attack and not due to injuries in the baton charge, the report added.
Mumbai has been reeling under a water shortage since June, when levels at the six lakes that supply the city with 3.3 billion litres (872 million US gallons) of water a day started running low.
India's annual June-September monsoon was 23 percent below average at the end of the season, making it the worst since 1972.
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