2 more killed by ULFA, violence spreads

ULFA militants struck in yet another district of Assam, gunning down two migrant labourers and injuring another.

ULFA militants on Monday struck in yet another district of Assam, gunning down two migrant labourers and injuring another to take the number of non-Assamese people killed since Friday to 68, officials said.

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Heavily armed militants raided a small village in Golaghat district, killing two Hindi-speaking persons as they were working in a field. One person was injured in the attack, they said.

Police reinforcements were rushed to the spot.

The ULFA has carried out a series of attacks on non-Assamese people, most of them Hindi-speaking persons from Bihar, since Friday in the districts of Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Dhemaji and Sibsagar in upper Assam.

Earlier, a report from Dibrugarh said two persons injured in the attacks succumbed to their injuries at the Assam Medical College Hospital where they were being treated.

Hospital sources said 62-year-old Veer Bahadur Gajapati and 14-year-old Ajay Mahato, both brick kiln workers who were injured in an attack at Sepon Chagalia, died on Monday.