Haflong, May 16 : Continuing with its bloodbath of innocents, suspected DHD (J) militants, better known as Black Widow, killed 11 people in two separate incidents of violence in the trouble-torn North Cachar Hills district this morning. In the first incident, militants waylaid five trucks belonging to Vinay Cements at a place called 29 Kilo near Panimurh under Umrangso police station around 7-30 am, and gunned down ten people, mostly handymen, drivers and labourers, after taking them to a nearby area named Lamalangso.
The ultras also set fire to two cement-laden trucks besides damaging other three.
Four of the dead have been identified as Shyam Kumar Singh, Narottam Das, Bhabiram Singh and Shambhu Devnath – all hailing from Lanka in Nagaon district.
In the second incident that took place about the same time, militants attacked a goods train coming from Lumding towards Maibong, resulting in the death of the driver, who has been identified as NL Bora. Three other persons are stated to have received injuries.
The incident took place in-between Kalachand and Mupa.
PTI adds: The NF Railways have cancelled all trains in the district between Badarpur and Lumding following increased attacks on its employees and labourers engaged in broad-gauge conversion work. The district had observed a 24-hour bandh yesterday to protest the killing of 13 labourers engaged in broad-gauge conversion work and East-West Corridor highway construction since Saturday by the militants.
The militants had also killed a railway employee and two others at Maibongdisa railway station in the district.
Ultra attack repulsed: In a gallant act, the police personnel of 21 AP (IR) battalion repulsed an attack on their camp by 25/30 heavily armed extremists last night at Kapurcherra in NC Hills district.
The extremists came in Army combat uniform and resorted to indiscriminate firing at the camp. On retaliation by the AP battalion personnel, they fled away under the cover of darkness and thick jungle. A massive combat operation was launched and police recovered five 40 mm morter shells and about 120 empty cases of assorted weapons, an official press release said.
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