Soldiers patrol the road to Gorubakha
village in Chirang district, some 230 kms from Guwahati, the capital
city of the northeastern state of Assam Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Some 50,000 villagers have fled to government camps for protection since violence erupted on Friday between the ethnic Bodo community and Muslim settlers in Assam's western district of Kokrajhar, said the state's police chief, J.N. Choudhury.
Police have since found 21 bodies hacked with machetes and left in the jungle
or by the road or riverside. Overnight, some 80 homes were burned down as
the violence spread to neighbouring Dhubri and Chirang districts. No one was
injured in the fires as the homes' occupants had already fled to the
half-dozen or so camps set up by officials.
Some 5,000 army and paramilitary troops deployed to the region have been given
a mandate to shoot suspected arsonists and rioters on sight.
"We have decided to control the situation with a firm hand, and we have
issued shoot orders," local police inspector general S.N. Singh said on
Tuesday.
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