Two labourers killed in fresh attacks in Assam

August 22, 2012 19:15

Two labourers were killed and another seriously injured in fresh violence in riot-hit lower Assam today taking the overall death toll to 80. Unidentified assailants fired on a group of minority labourers working in a brick kiln field at Bangaldoba in Dhubri district killing two of them and injuring another, police sources said.

The attack took place during relaxation of day curfew following improvement in the situation. Dhubri deputy commissioner Kumud Chandra Kalita and senior police officials rushed to the spot. The injured labourer was admitted to the civil hospital at Dhubri.

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