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Violence in Assam continues, death toll rises to 36
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Clean Media Correspondent
Kokrajhar, July 25 (CMC) Rioters and police fought gun battles in Assam state wounding more people in ethnic violence that has killed at least 36 people and forced tens of thousands to flee their razed homes police said on Wednesday. The police warned violators would be shot on sight to enforce a curfew as they struggled to contain clashes between Bodos and Muslim settlers.
But the threat appeared to have done little to stem violence in three of the state's districts.
Police have complained they are ill-equipped to deal with roving mobs that are armed with guns, machetes, clubs and rocks.
"Nobody is following any curfew," said Sanjeev Kumar Krishna, a police official in Chirang district which is one of the affected areas.
"People are still walking out on the roads huts are being set ablaze," he told clean media.
A team of MHA under joint secretary (northeast), Sambhu Singh would visit Kokrajhar to take the stock of present situations in the Bodoland Territorial Council.
An all party delegation would also visit Kokrajhar and Dhubri district on Wednesday and Chirang district on Thursday.
Shops and businesses were shuttered and streets deserted in the violence-hit Kokrajhar district.
Dozens of soldiers staged a march on the outskirts of the main district town also called Kokrajhar carrying red flags to try to instil confidence among locals.
But the area was deserted and there was no one tending the surrounding rice paddies although it was the sowing season.
A senior Assam police officer who declined to be quoted by name said the death toll from the violence had risen to 36.
Road and rail connections to the affected areas have been severely disrupted.
About 100 trucks loaded with grain on their way to Guwahati were left stranded on a highway.
Blood on the streets
The latest violence erupted just days after floods killed more than 100 people and left at least 400,000 homeless in Assam.
"The firing between police and rioters are still taking place," SN Singh, inspector general of police Assam said.
"We realize the gravity of the situation when we see blood stains on the roads and surroundings. We are trying our best to control the situation," said Singh.
Over one lakh people have been rendered homeless and 125 relief camps have been set up in the affected district of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri.
Sources said that 18 columns of the Army's 21 mountain division were on their way to the troubled districts.
An all-party delegation of the Assam assembly are scheduled to visit the troubled areas on Wednesday.
Violence in Assam continues, death toll rises to 36
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Kokrajhar, July 25 (CMC) Rioters and police fought gun battles in Assam state wounding more people in ethnic violence that has killed at least 36 people and forced tens of thousands to flee their razed homes police said on Wednesday. The police warned violators would be shot on sight to enforce a curfew as they struggled to contain clashes between Bodos and Muslim settlers.
But the threat appeared to have done little to stem violence in three of the state's districts.
Police have complained they are ill-equipped to deal with roving mobs that are armed with guns, machetes, clubs and rocks.
"Nobody is following any curfew," said Sanjeev Kumar Krishna, a police official in Chirang district which is one of the affected areas.
"People are still walking out on the roads huts are being set ablaze," he told clean media.
A team of MHA under joint secretary (northeast), Sambhu Singh would visit Kokrajhar to take the stock of present situations in the Bodoland Territorial Council.
An all party delegation would also visit Kokrajhar and Dhubri district on Wednesday and Chirang district on Thursday.
Shops and businesses were shuttered and streets deserted in the violence-hit Kokrajhar district.
Dozens of soldiers staged a march on the outskirts of the main district town also called Kokrajhar carrying red flags to try to instil confidence among locals.
But the area was deserted and there was no one tending the surrounding rice paddies although it was the sowing season.
A senior Assam police officer who declined to be quoted by name said the death toll from the violence had risen to 36.
Road and rail connections to the affected areas have been severely disrupted.
About 100 trucks loaded with grain on their way to Guwahati were left stranded on a highway.
Blood on the streets
The latest violence erupted just days after floods killed more than 100 people and left at least 400,000 homeless in Assam.
"The firing between police and rioters are still taking place," SN Singh, inspector general of police Assam said.
"We realize the gravity of the situation when we see blood stains on the roads and surroundings. We are trying our best to control the situation," said Singh.
Over one lakh people have been rendered homeless and 125 relief camps have been set up in the affected district of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri.
Sources said that 18 columns of the Army's 21 mountain division were on their way to the troubled districts.
An all-party delegation of the Assam assembly are scheduled to visit the troubled areas on Wednesday.
It seems that North East is not for North Indians!
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