Rabha violence toll touches 20
The death toll in the troubled Rabha Hasong area climbed to 20 on Wednesday with the recovery of seven more bodies killed in group clashes on Tuesday, even as miscreants burnt a village and a vehicle on national highway later in the day.
State home secretary GD Tripathy said curfew in Krishnai and Mornoi police station areas is on and shoot-on-sight orders have been given. The army is patrolling the entire Rabha-Hasong area and assisting the civil administration in controlling the situation.
The violent protest by Rabhas against holding panchayat elections in Rabha-Hasong Autonomous Council area has now taken an ugly turn with Muslims retaliating at different locations against Rabhas.
On Wednesday morning, Muslim villagers waylaid a police team carrying bodies of three Rabhas killed in the police firing for post mortem at Bolbola near Krishnai.
Police said though the van carrying the bodies managed to escape, another car was burnt down.
Later in the day, suspected Muslims burned down a village at Udaipur near Mornoi and also set a market ablaze in Goalpara town.
"The chief minister has reviewed the situation with the chief secretary, DGP and senior officials of home department and has directed them to take all steps to ensure that so that situation does not take the colour of ethnic violence.
The government of Assam has also made fervent appeals to the people not to rely on rumours and verify any information from official sources."
The death toll in the troubled Rabha Hasong area climbed to 20 on Wednesday with the recovery of seven more bodies killed in group clashes on Tuesday, even as miscreants burnt a village and a vehicle on national highway later in the day.
State home secretary GD Tripathy said curfew in Krishnai and Mornoi police station areas is on and shoot-on-sight orders have been given. The army is patrolling the entire Rabha-Hasong area and assisting the civil administration in controlling the situation.
The violent protest by Rabhas against holding panchayat elections in Rabha-Hasong Autonomous Council area has now taken an ugly turn with Muslims retaliating at different locations against Rabhas.
On Wednesday morning, Muslim villagers waylaid a police team carrying bodies of three Rabhas killed in the police firing for post mortem at Bolbola near Krishnai.
Police said though the van carrying the bodies managed to escape, another car was burnt down.
Later in the day, suspected Muslims burned down a village at Udaipur near Mornoi and also set a market ablaze in Goalpara town.
"The chief minister has reviewed the situation with the chief secretary, DGP and senior officials of home department and has directed them to take all steps to ensure that so that situation does not take the colour of ethnic violence.
The government of Assam has also made fervent appeals to the people not to rely on rumours and verify any information from official sources."
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