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| Assam death toll 51; shoot-at-sight continues | | | AGENCIES
UDALGURI, Oct 8: The death toll mounted to 51 in Assam's violence-scarred Udalguri and Darrang districts with the recovery of 11 bodies on Tuesday of victims of clashes between illegal Bangladeshi immigrants and indigenous people since Friday.
Official sources said three bodies were recovered from Panbari area of Darrang district, while two bodies each were found from Paschim Hahiligaon in Tangla area and Mazbat, besides four from Kalaigaon, Rajapukhuri and Jhargaon areas of Udalguri district. The bodies were recovered from villages burnt down when search operations were launched for survivors and bodies.
IGP (Law and Order) Bhaskarjyoti Mahanta told reporters here that of the 51 killed, 26 died in clashes and the rest in police firing.
Thirty persons, including 19 were killed in Udalguri in clashes and 21, including seven in Darrang, while 90 were injured, Mahanta said.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed the situation had "improved" with no fresh violence reported since last evening.
With indefinite curfew and shoot-at-sight continuing in the two districts, Gogoi said in a statement in Guwahati that the army was staging flag marches to prevent recurrence of trouble.
He said, he had asked the army and para-military to maintain strict vigil so that the violence did not spread to new areas.
Strong measures were suggested against those spreading rumours and dealing firmly with miscreants trying to engineer rift among the communities. |
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