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Eight construction workers shot dead

Sushanta Talukdar

Guwahati: Suspected militants of Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel faction), also known as Black Widow, gunned down eight construction workers in an interior village in Assam’s North Cachar Hills district on Sunday. Earlier on Saturday night the outfit gunned down a railway employee at Wadengdisa railway station of the hill district.

Principal Secretary, Home, Subhash Das told The Hindu that suspected militants of Black Widow went to a construction site of ongoing Broad Guage conversion project at Thoibasti near Fiding under Mahur police station and started firing indiscriminately on the workers there.

Eight workers died on the spot. Six of the eight victims have been identified.

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