DIPHU (ASSAM): In continuing attacks on Hindi-speaking people in Assam, United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants exterminated two families, comprising 11 persons and killed a child in a grenade attack on a grocery shop in two separate incidents in Karbi Anglong district.
Police said both the incidents took place late Friday night. ULFA and KLNLF extremists jointly raided Dehori village under Howraghat police station at around 9.45 pm, called out the family members, including the heads of the families and gunned them down, police said.
In another incident at Sukanjan under Bokajan, the KLNLF ultras hurled two grenades inside the grocery shop of one Ganesh Prasad, a Hindi-speaking shopkeeper and killed a two-and-half year old girl, Chitra Mech, at 8.30 pm, police said.
The injured have been hospitalised. Police said the situation was tense in the district and army operations were on.
Security forces have been put on maximum alert in the troubled district particularly in view of the Independence Day celebrations for which militants in the North East have called a boycott.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will visit the district on Saturday particulary Bokolia area where eight Hindi-speaking people were gunned down on August 8.
One person was killed and 19 others injured in militant fire and bomb explosion at Bokajan and Diphu town in the district on Friday.
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