ULFA kills five migrant workers in Assam
May 15, 2007 - 10:39:12 PM
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The ULFA, which is fighting for a separate Assamese homeland and demanding the expulsion of all non-Assamese people, especially those from the Hindi-speaking northern belt of India, had killed about 60 migrant workers in January in a wave of attacks.
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By IANS,
[RxPG] Guwahati, May 15 - Separatists Tuesday gunned down five Hindi-speaking migrant workers and wounded one in two separate attacks in Assam, officials said.
A police spokesman said heavily armed militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom - shot dead four people, most of them daily wage earners, near village Belbari in Dibrugarh district, about 470 km east of here.
'The militants came in motorcycles and killed four Hindi-speaking people using automatic weapons,' Dibrugarh district police chief V.K. Ramisetti told IANS by telephone.
'Details of the incident are not immediately available as the area is in a remote location.'
In another incident in the adjoining Sivasagar district, ULFA militants killed a 60-year-old Hindi-speaking grocer and critically wounded his son.
'There was a brief altercation between the father and son and a group of ULFA militants after which the rebels fired indiscriminately killing the grocer on the spot and seriously injured his son who received several bullet wounds,' a senior police official said from Sivasagar.
A senior ULFA leader telephoned local newspaper offices late Tuesday and claimed responsibility for the attacks without specifying the immediate provocation for the killings.
On Monday, two people were killed and 10 wounded in a powerful blast in Guwahati - the latest in a string of bombings in Assam blamed on the ULFA.
The ULFA, which is fighting for a separate Assamese homeland and demanding the expulsion of all non-Assamese people, especially those from the Hindi-speaking northern belt of India, had killed about 60 migrant workers in January in a wave of attacks.
The killings prompted New Delhi to launch a massive military offensive in January in which about 60 ULFA rebels were killed and about 570 arrested in separate raids from Assam.
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