Tinsukia, Jan 06: In the second attack in as
many days on non-Assamese, the banned ULFA on Saturday shot dead 12
Bihari and Bengali brick-kiln workers and milkmen and injured
five others in Tinsukia district's Sadiya area in Assam,
police said.
Seventeen non-Assamese were gunned down yesterday by the
insurgent outfit in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts.
The militants attacked remote village Ghuramora, under
Sadiya police station, in the wee hours today and gunned down
the Bihari and Bengali mixed population of brick kiln workers
and milkmen, police said.
Security personnel have been despatched to the area which
was not accessible by motor and was across a river, District
Superintendent of Police P K Bhuyan told a news agency.
The policemen would require to traverse 20 km on foot
and cross the river before reaching there, Bhuyan said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, January 06, 2007, 00:00