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| Death toll rises to 27 in Assam killing |
| 2014-05-04 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Seven more bodies have been found in the Baksa district in Assam, taking the number of people killed in the violence in the state to 27 in the last 36 hours. A curfew has been imposed, and shoot at sight orders have been given in the Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa districts in Assam, after killings by suspected Bodo rebels, reported NDTV. The region was witness to widespread ethnic violence two years ago too. Eleven Moslems was rubbed out by suspected tribal rebels in attacks in India's northeasterly tea-growing state of Assam on Friday, where tension has run high during a drawn-out general election, officials said yesterday. Police said they suspected snuffies from the Bodo tribe were behind the attack in a region where tension between ethnic Bodo people and Moslem settlers spilled over two years ago into festivities in which dozens were killed and 400,000 fled their homes. Bodo representatives argue that many of the Moslems are undocumented Democrats from neighbouring Bangladesh encroaching on their ancestral lands, and election candidates including front-runner Narendra Modi have called for tighter migration controls. In one of the incidents, eight people were killed by a group of suspected Bodo guerrillas. In the other, three members of one family including two women were rubbed out, and a baby was maimed, said a police brass hat in the state's main city, Guwahati. Voting was held over several days in Assam to help security forces handle violence from any of the separatist or tribal murderous Moslem groups active in the state. Polling in the Bodo region ended on April 24, in what residents say was a tight race between a Bodo and a non-tribal candidate, although results from the five-week national election are not due for another two weeks. |
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