JINTUL TALKUDAR, BAKSA: An uneasy calm grips Chirang and Sorbhog on Monday two days after suspected NDFB-S militants in Baksa district killed four local lemon traders from Barpeta.
From Monday morning security forces are on round-the-clock vigil to thwart any attempt to monger ethnic frenzy in the BTAD areas in the wake of the attack on the minority traders.
Curfew has been relaxed. But only to be clamped again towards the evening.
The angry non-Bodo people in Barpeta district have threatened to launch a massive protest against the incident where four lemon traders were killed after being kidnapped on the way from a market at Labdangpar along the Barpeta-Baksa inter district border.
The bodies were recovered from the Beki river on Sunday sending shock and angers across the BTAD areas. Policemen resorted to blank firing to disperse a mob for holding a protest against the Baksa killing by violating the indefinite curfew in Salbari sub-division and Anand Bazar area in the afternoon.
The family members and local resident in Barpeta district refused to conduct the last rites demanding Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s visit. This has forced the police to fire in the air to disperse the mob ignoring the curfew at Anand Bazar area. /
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