Five people were killed and two others injured in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia district on Thursday evening after terrorists dressed in Army fatigues fired randomly at a group of people belonging to a particular linguistic minority community at Kheraibari area under Dhola, police said.
Later, one more injured died in the hospital taking the death toll to five, said police, adding that it suspects the hands of anti-talk faction of Ulfa militants behind the incident.
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal strongly condemned the killing of innocent people near Dhola in Tinsukia district which borders Arunachal Pradesh and is located about 485 km east of Assam’s capital town Guwahati.
The CM asked asked State Water Resources Minister Keshav Mahanta and Minister of State (Power) Topon Kumar Gogoi to rush to the incident site to take stock of the situation.