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ULFA kills 3 more traders

Sushanta Talukdar

Death toll goes up to nine

Guwahati: Suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three more Hindi-speaking traders at Dergaon in upper Assam's Golaghat district on Wednesday.

Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order) D.K. Pathak told The Hindu that the militants gunned down two traders at Disoi Tiniali and the other at Ghiladhari around 7 p.m. The death toll in fresh attacks by the ULFA on Hindi-speaking people has gone up to nine with the police recovering one more body from Belbari under the Tengakhat police station in Dibrugarh district.

Earlier four bodies were recovered, while suspected ULFA rebels gunned down a trader at Borhat in neighbouring Sivasagar district.

On Tuesday, a caller, identifying himself as commander Jiten Dutta of the ULFA's 28th battalion, told the local media that the outfit would target "migrant Indians" to avenge the death of "indigenous people in fratricidal clashes engineered by occupational forces at Doomdooma" in Tinsukia district.

Six persons were killed there on May 13 in group clashes between tea garden workers and agitators staging a blockade on National Highway 37 to protest the killing of a civilian allegedly by the Army in a fake encounter.

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