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Curfew clamped, Army called out in Tinsukia

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Two persons killed in firing on crowd attacking police station

Guwahati: Curfew was clamped and the Army called out in parts of Tinsukia district after two persons were killed in firing on a crowd which attacked the Kakopthar police station on Friday afternoon.

Home Commissioner B.K. Gohain said indefinite curfew was imposed at 6:15 p.m. and the Army deployed to prevent people from pouring into the roads and the national highways and indulge in violence.

He said one ULFA militant was killed in an encounter with the Army at Makum. Hundreds of villagers had staged a blockade on the Doomdooma-Makum road soon after the killing.

In the police station incident six security personnel, including two CRPF jawans, were seriously injured.

Mr. Gohain told The Hindu that police and CRPF personnel tried to stop the crowd from proceeding to the station.

However, it broke the security cordon and started pelting stones on the security personnel. As the crowd turned violent the police opened fire, he said.

People from more than 50 villages have been staging a blockade on National Highway 52 for the last five days to protest the death of Ajit Mahanta, a farmer of Dirak Gosain village, in Army custody. The village falls under the Kakopathar police station limits.

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