At least one person was killed and two others injured after the suspected anti-talk faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants fired indiscriminately at a group of people in Kokrajhar district on Sunday.
A senior Assam Police official said this today while adding that the incident took place at Molandubi area under Kazigaon police station in the district on Sunday.
While one person was killed on the spot during the incident, two others were injured, police said. “Six armed militants came in three motorcycle and started indiscriminate firing on the local people leading to the death of one and injury of two others, police said.
It may be mentioned here that a few days back the villagers reportedly lynched two cadres of the NDFB anti-talk faction when they came to collect extortion money from a businessman.
On Saturday, the suspected militants of the NDFB’s anti-talk faction claimed to have ambushed a six member team of security forces at Chariduar in Assam’s Sonitpur district.
Although the militants to claimed to have killed the six security force personnel, the State home department, however, denied the killing of security force personnel by the militants.
It may be mentioned here that the anti-talk faction of the NDFB militants had stepped up their activities like abduction and extortion in all the four districts of the BTAD.
The militants had recently abducted two jawans of the Sashastra Suraksha Bal (SSB) from the area and police had later recovered their body. The Assam Police and security forces had recently launched an operation in the district, particularly against the NDFB militants.