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Violence Erupts in Asom as ULFA Kills 48 in Two Days

2007-01-06 The banned ULFA outfit killed 23 more people in Assam's Tinsukia district on Saturday - the second attack in as many days. The terrorists killed 17 people on Friday, mostly from Hindi-speaking groups.

On Friday night, in a second attack, the terrorist group killed eight more Bihari labourers in the Jonai subdivision of the Dhimaji district taking the toll up to 25.

In a third attack on Saturday, the group shot dead 23 Bihari and Bengali brick-kiln workers and milkmen and injured five others in the district's Sadiya area, according to the police, taking the death toll up to 48.

Police sources say the militants were masked and armed with AK-47 rifles.

The militants attacked remote village Ghuramora, under Sadiya police station, early in the morning on Saturday and gunned down the workers.

Security personnel have been dispatched to the area, which was not accessible by road and was across a river, district Superintendent of Police P K Bhuyan was quoted by PTI as saying.

The policemen would require to traverse 20 km on foot and cross the river before reaching there, Bhuyan said.

Following the attacks, there have been clashes amongst the local population in Dhola, Tinsukia, with many immigrants attacking the ethnic Assamese people.

A group of Bihari immigrants have attacked a police station in Dhola.

The incident has sparked off tension in the area with people tense that it could lead to large scale communal violence.

On Friday, five gunmen had come in a three-wheeler and fired indiscriminately at the workers. Police said it was a case of extortion and the operation was pre-meditated.

Says Health and Family Welfare Minister Assam, Himanta Vishwasarma, "This is a very serious matter and we are doing everything to provide adequate security to them. We are taking the matter very seriously."

Home Secretary V K Duggal was on a pre-election visit to Assam a few days ago and had said that everything was fine in the state and that the law and order situation was under control.

These attacks could therefore be seen as a strong signal from the side of the ULFA, a bid to reassert themselves.

Two Cabinet ministers along with a team of senior police officers have left for Assam. Bihar has also sounded red alert in the state to avert any retaliatory attacks on Assamese.

All trains to and from Assam passing through Bihar will be provided special security.

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