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Former rebels enforce road, rail blockade

Special Correspondent

Guwahati: A 100-hour road and rail blockade called by former militants of the erstwhile Bodo Liberation Tigers (BLT) disrupted train movement and vehicular traffic in the Bodo dominated areas of lower Assam on Thursday. The train services resumed in the afternoon after the police removed the former militants who had picketed railway tracks to enforce the blockade.

The blockade was called by the ex-BLT Welfare Federation, an organisation of former militants to protest killing of one of their members allegedly by the rival militant outfit — National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB).

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