Guwahati, Nov 25: Backlash on Biharis in Assam spread to Darrang district where three persons were gunned down by militants taking the toll in the ethnic violence in the state to 56 even as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was today heckled at a relief camp at Doomdooma in worst-hit Tinsukia district for failing to protect lives. Militants mowed down three Biharis, including a woman and her grandson, at Khanglabari village when they attempted to flee in panic last night, deputy commissioner of Darrang, the sixth district to be hit by the ethnic violence in the state, told a news agency. The militants who had initially knocked at the door of a Nepali resident, opened fire from AK 47S on the Biharis who lived next door, when they tried to escape.
Nine others, including three members of the Nepali family and six Biharis were injured in the firing, Thakur said.
The killers set ablaze 19 huts before fleeing.

The identity of the group involved in the attack could not be immediately ascertained as both the Natioanal Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) and Ulfa were active in Darrang in lower Assam.

Besides last night's three deaths in Darrang, 29 have been killed in the districts of Tinsukia, 10 in Dibrugarh, six in Bongaingaon, four in Dhubri, three in Nalbari and one in Guwahati since November 15 in the aftermath on the attack on Assamese railway passengers in Bihar on November 11 and 12.
Bureau Report