Six killed in Assam violence

GUWAHATI, JAN. 23. Six people, including four woodcutters and two ULFA militants, were killed while the Army averted a major disaster in separate incidents in Assam on Monday night, official sources said here today.

Heavily armed ultras raided village Bishnupur-Sankuchi in Nalbari district and hacked to death four woodcutters belonging to the minority community, the sources said.

Two other injured people were shifted to Guwahati Medical College Hospital.

Army troops detected an improvised explosive device (IED) placed under Baradiya bridge on national highway number 31 near Nalbari town. The Army bomb disposal squad defused the IED.

The Dibrugarh police in an encounter with ultras at Lankashi and Hukani area under Bordubi police station killed an ULFA militant, Sunil Gohain, belonging to the `action group'.

In another encounter with the Army in Nalbari district, one ULFA militant, Hebib Ali alias Habibur Rahman, was killed in Barbhila village.

- PTI

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