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 Guwahati: Two-days after all the doctors in the government civil hospital in Kokrajhar district of Assam had fled facing threat from the insurgents, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday admitted that the law and order situation was deterioarting in the Bodoland Territorual Council (BTC) areas in the state due to growing threat from insurgents.

Gogoi also ordered immediate transfer of Kokrajhar district Superintendent of Police P K Dutta. He admitted that the insurgents belonging to the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) had demanded money from some of the doctors in the hospital which prompted mass exodus of doctors on Saturday evening leaving the patients unattended.

He said the government has taken very seripus iew of the development and was taking togh measures to stop such activities by the militants.

All the doctors in the hospital in Kokrajhar district fled serving no notice to the authority after the anti-talks faction of NDFB demanded Rs 1 lakh each from them by Saturday evening. Meanwhile, Assam government has sent five doctors from Guwahati Medical College Hospital and two doctors from the NRHM to Kokrajhar hospital as a stop-gap arrangement. It is the biggest hospital in the entire BTC area of Assam.

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