Guwahati: At least 23 persons, including children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by NDFB(S) militants in two districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa of Assam since Thursday night. Shoot-at-sight was ordered on Friday night in the districts, under Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts area.
A group of 40 NDFB (Songbijit) militants, armed with AK-47 rifles, swooped down on Balapara-I village in Kokrajhar district in the early hours of Friday and fired indiscriminately entering three houses one after another killing seven persons on the spot, police said.
On Friday, 13 bullet-riddled bodies were recovered from Nankekhadrabari and Nayanguri villages in Baksa. (PTI)
