From Our Correspondent
Dhubri/Kokrajhar: Fresh incidents of violence on Sunday rocked strife-torn Lower Assam districts leaving one person dead in Dhubri and two injured in Kokrajhar even as protestors blocked a national highway in the state.
Police said that a body with injury marks was found in Sukhanjora village under the Bogribari police station area in Dhubri district on Sunday morning, taking the toll in the violence since July 19 to 87.
The person, who was killed, was missing since on Saturday.
As the news of the recovery of the body spread, angry protestors blocked the NH-31 at Matrijhora.
The police later took the body for postmortem and the blockade was lifted. Two people, including a woman, were attacked by unidentified miscreants near Salakati railway station in Kokrajhar district, police said.
The injured have been admitted to Bongaigaon Civil Hospital.
Meawhile, six people, inmates of a relief camp, died in an attack at Amguri Bazar in Chirang district on Saturday night taking the death toll in the month-long mayhem to 86, police said.
State IGP (law and order) L R Bishnoi told PTI that unidentified persons attacked and left injured two persons near Salakati Railway Station in Kokrajhar at around 4 AM.
After a brief lull, violence had returned to Chirang district on Saturday evening when bodies of six persons, all relief camp inmates of Rajpara, were foumd at Amguri Bazar.
In Kokrajhar, curfew was relaxed from 4 AM to 9 PM, following which the Bodoland Peoples’ Front (BPF) suspended its indefinite bandh which it had called in protest against the arrest of its Kokrajhar (West) MLA Pradip Brahma for allegedly inciting riots.
Night curfew is continuing in the troubled districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri after violence that started from July 19 in which more than four lakh people have been rendered homeless with most residing in relief camps.
Violence has hit the Bodoland Territorial Administered Districts and Dhubri since July 19.
More than four lakh people had taken shelter in relief camps at the peak of violence and, at present, there are nearly 2.5 lakh inmates in 222 relief camps.
Army presence in the areas is continuing.
In another incident, five people were injured when miscreants attacked two families in two separate incidents in Kokrajhar district on Sunday even as the situation in violence-affected areas of Bodoland Territorial Autonomous District Council (BTC) in Assam continued to remain tense despite curfew remaining in force.
The families came under attacks at Salakati and Fakiragram in Kokrajhar district in the morning hours when they were going to railway station to board a train to Dhubri.
The injured people were three women and one a five-year old girl. All the injured were rushed to local hospitals where their condition was stated to be out of danger, a senior official said. (With inputs from PTI)
