At least 19 persons including two women were killed and four injured when suspected militants from the anti-talks faction of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland opened indiscriminate fire on innocent civilians at seven places in Assam on Monday afternoon. Seventeen of the slain persons were Hindi-speaking while two were Nepali-speaking.
The police informed that eight persons were killed, all employees of Arunachal Pradesh government, when suspected NDFB militants fired upon passengers of a bus going from Tezpur in assam to Sijutsa in Arunachal Pradesh. A group of NDFB stopped the bus at Bhoimara area on the way around 4.30 pm on Monday and commandeered the eight passengers out of it before gunning them down.
In another incident, NDFB ultras shot dead five people from a family near Belsiri railway station at Dhekiajuli town in Sonitpur district on Monday evening. The deceased included a couple. One more person was killed and two others were injured when NDFB ultras opened fire at Kekerikuchi in Bagsa district on Monday afternoon.
A woman was killed by the ultras at Hograjuli in Sonitpur district while two Nepal nationals were killed at Mazbat. The NDFB ultras also gunned down two men at Dokmoka in Karbi Anglong district while two other persons were injured in another attack at Batasipur in Sonitpur district.
The NDFB ultras had issued a statement on November 1 last threatening to retaliate killing of 'its cadres and innocent Bodo tribe people' by security forces in 'fake encounters' by killing 20 'Indians.'
One NDFB cadre was killed by security forces near Dhekiajuli in Sonitpur district in the wee hours of Monday.
