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Assam Burning: Fresh violence hits Lower Districts

Amid fresh violence incidents rocked Lower Assam districts injured five persons including four women and a minor near Salakati railway station in Kokrajhar district of Assam on Sunday when wrongdoers attacked them. In another violence hit Chirang district, seven persons were killed and one dead body with injury marks was recovered by Dhubri district

Assam violence: death toll increase, lakhs homeless, Congress accuses Gogoi

Amid seven days long ethnic clashes between Bodos and Muslim illegal migrants in four Assam districts that reach Kokrajhar, the epicentre of the violence, left 58 people dead. Around 2 lakh are homeless and seeking shelter in 150 relief camps while 11 persons are missing. Assam Government has issued indefinite curfew and shoot-at-sight orders to [...]