Fresh violence erupts in Assam, toll touches 73

With violence resurfacing between indigenous Bodo tribe and suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Bodo heartland of Assam, Lower Assam is on boil again, and Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has called for the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the clashes. He said the death toll in the clashes has reached 73 and more than 400,000 have been displaced. Arson and rioting had been reported from Chirang district, one of the four Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts, in the past 72 hours, which resulted in death of at least six people. Houses were also torched by rioters in Chirang district.