Smoke rises from the site of a militant attack at Balajan Tinali in Kokrajhar district of Assam.
At least 14 persons, one of them a militant,
were killed and 20 injured when militants allegedly belonging to the
banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit faction) opened
fire and hurled grenades at a weekly market near Kokrajhar town in the
Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in western Assam today.
Five militants, armed to the teeth and attired in black (agency reports
said they were in Army uniform), arrived at the market in an
autorickshaw shortly after 11 am, hurled grenades and opened
indiscriminate fire.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who was in New Delhi, asked his
senior minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma and state DGP Mukesh Sahay to
rush to Kokrajhar.
The DGP claimed at least one militant belonging to the NDFB (S) was
killed in retaliatory firing by the security forces and indicated the
involvement of NDFB (S) militants. Hagrama Mohilary, Chief Executive
Member of the Bodoland Territorial Council, hinted at the involvement of
a “suicide squad” of NDFB (S).
The NDFB (S) has been on the run since December 2014 after the security
forces launched an operation against it for killing 70 Adivasi
villagers.
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