At least seven more persons have been killed in militant attacks in Lower Assam, taking the death toll in the recent violence to 30.
As per reports, seven more bodies were recovered overnight in Baksa district. The death toll in the last 36 hours now stands at 30.
Till last night, 23 bodies had been recovered, including of children and women.
At least 14 others were seriously injured in attacks by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants in two communally-sensitive districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa.
The attacks continued even as the Army was called in, as per a report, curfew clamped in the violence-hit districts.
The authorities have issued shoot-at-sight orders in view of the bloodbath perpetrated by the National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants.
Kokrajhar and Baksa districts come under the Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTAD) area. Indefinite curfew was also imposed in Chirang district, also under BTAD, as a precautionary measure, police sources said.
A group of 40 NDFB-Songbijit militants, armed with AK-47 rifles, swooped down on Balapara-I village in Kokrajhar district in the early hours of Friday and fired indiscriminately entering three houses one after another killing seven persons on the spot, police said.