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West Bengal
By Marcus Dam
Security in the area has been stepped up to ensure that West Bengal is not caught in the spiral of violence sparked by an attack last week on Assamese train passengers by college students in Jamalpur in Bihar and the subsequent threat against Hindi speaking people by the ULFA. Dilip Bandopadhyay, Additional Superintendent of Police, Jalpaiguri district, [which also shares a 43-km. border with Assam] told The Hindu today that the police had started making special security arrangements. "The manner in which yesterday's killings were committed suggests that a terrorist outfit was the perpetrator," he said. With the Assam police not ruling out the possibility of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) — a militant group active in north Bengal — hand in the incident, the Coochbehar police are combing the bordering areas and raiding the known KLO strongholds. The KLO and the ULFA are known to have close links; their militants training jointly in camps in south Bhutan. The KLO has considerable influence in some pockets of the Terai area of Coochbehar, as it has in the Dooars region of Jalpaiguri from where two activists were arrested on November 12. The Coochbehar SP, S. S. Panda, said additional personnel have been deployed in the bordering areas and pickets set up along the NH31 that runs through the two States. Special vigil was being maintained along the district's 84-km border with Assam and the adjacent riverine areas.
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