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Publication: Rediff
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Date: December 7, 2000
In another cold-blooded
strike against Hindi-speaking people in Assam, suspected United Liberation
Front of Asom militants gunned down 27 persons and seriously wounded 15
others in the Sadiya-Tezu road in remote Sunpura forest in Tinsukia district
Thursday evening, police said.
Coming eight days after
the massacre of 22 people of the community in Bongaigaon and Karbi Anglong
districts, the militants lying in wait in the densely wooded area fired
a hail of bullets at three trucks carrying the people, who were returning
home from Sunpura bazaar to Sadiya, the sources said.
Senior police and civil
officials have rushed to the spot.
An anguished Chief Minister
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta condemned the ghastly killing and directed officials
to take all possible measures to hunt down the killers.
With Thursday's killing
97 Hindi-speaking persons have died at the hands of militants since October
21 in eight strikes.
