India: Fresh violence erupts in Assam, toll rises to 23; Army called in

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GUWAHATI: At least 23 persons, including children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants in two communally-sensitive districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa of Assam since last night. 

Shoot-at-sight was ordered on Friday night in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts, falling under Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTAD) area, which bore the brunt of the violence, while indefinite curfew imposed in Chirang district, also under BTAD, as a precautionary measure, police sources said. 

Curfew went into force from 6pm today to 4am tomorrow in Baksa district’s Salbari subdivision and pockets of Mushalpur and Tamulpur subdivisions. 

A group of 40 NDFB-Songbijit militants, armed with AK-47 rifles, swooped down on Balapara-I village in Kokrajhar district in the early hours today and fired indiscriminately entering three houses one after another killing seven persons on the spot, police said. .. see more

source: times of india

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