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Four killed in fresh Assam violence

 

AGENCIES | Guwahati, November 17, 2012 10:40
Tags : Assam violence | Bodoland | BTAD | Kokrajhar |
 

Four killed in fresh Assam violenceBodoland area in lower Assam witnessed fresh trouble with the killing of four persons by armed assailants in Jiaguri even as police arrested a member of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District in connection with the killing.
  
The assailants fired randomly on a group of persons at Jiaguri in Kokrajhar police station in which four persons were
killed late last night, Inspector General of Police (BTAD) S N Singh said Saturday.
  
"Monokumar Brahma alias Jalja, a member of BTAD, was arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing," he said.
  
"Two AK-47 rifles, magazines of AK-47 rifles and 60 rounds of assorted ammunition were seized from his bedroom. He is currently being interrogated," he said.
  
Indefinite curfew has been continuing in Kokrajhar district as violence flared up in the area again, the police said.

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