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Jaipur: Several people were injured in a scuffle between protesting farmers and police personnel in Lunkaransar town of Bikaner on Friday.More than 500 farmers reached along with stray animals at tehsil headquarters and let the cattle loose after breaking the locks. But then suddenly someone gave a provocative speech and they got agitated again and came back along with 1,000 stray animals and occupied the highway," said a police official. "They broke the gate locks and forced stray animals inside the premises of tehsil office. When we went to remove them, farmers started pelting stones," said Sawai Singh Godara, SP, Bikaner.Farmers were agitating over reducing the width of about 60 water outlets falling under Kanwar Sain lift project. To disperse the crowd, police resorted to lathicharge and fired tear gas in which 10 policemen including ASP and DSP and a few farmers were injured.During the clashes, about four vehicles were damaged..