Assam violence: Army deploys helicopters to hunt down Bodo militants... GUWAHATI/TEZPUR: The Indian Army on Thursday deployed military helicopters to hunt down NDFB(S) militants as the toll climbed to 78 in the carnage by Bodo militants and retaliatory attacks by adivasis in Assam. A military official said helicopters were scouring the jungles of Assam to track down militants trying to flee to Bhutan and the neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, which has thickly-forested mountains. Fresh incidents of violence occurred on Thursday morning in Gossaigaon area in Kokrajhar where several houses of Bodos were set ablaze by adivasis as the backlash to the Tuesday massacre continued for the second day despite indefinite curfew clamped in the entire district. Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday visited Sonitpur, one of the three violence-hit districts in lower Assam while reviewing the situation in the aftermath of the bloodbath by Bodo militants and declared that strong action will be taken against NDFB(S) under the Centres zero tolerance policy for such crafted terror.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:45:10 +0000
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