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| Another ULFA attack kills three |
| People take part in an all-party peace rally in Guwahati on Monday against the ongoing killings of Hindi-speaking people in parts of Assam
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| INDIA
, 9-January-2007
1:29:28 AM |
| Militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom on Monday gunned down three more Biharis — two at Barpathar in upper Assam's Golaghat district and one at Duliajan in Dibrugarh district. With this, the death toll in the ULFA attacks on Hindi-speaking workers since Friday has gone up to 62.
The outfit also struck in the city; Two improvised explosive devices went off in the Satgaon area on Monday night, injuring eight Hindi and Bengali-speaking persons. One blast occurred close the Narengi Army base camp.
Meanwhile, hundreds of panic-stricken Bihari migrant workers fled the State following fresh strikes. The Northeast Frontier Railways has recorded a huge cancellation of tickets from the region.
An indefinite curfew was clamped in Dibrugarh town around 1 p.m. on Monday. In the worst-hit Tinsukia district, curfew is already in force.
Government spokesman and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma said two militants, suspected to have been involved in one of the massacres in Dibrugarh district, were killed in an encounter with security forces at Sivasagar on Sunday night.
Confirming reports of the exodus, Dr. Sharma told reporters that about 100 migrant Bihari workers, who had come to the State about a month ago to work on the Bogibeel project of the N.F. Railway, fled Dibrugarh district.
The Government instructed all districts to group brick kiln workers, escort them to work sites and bring them back to the designated locations before sunset. However, this measure failed to stem the exodus of the workers to Bihar.
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