| Unidentified militants kidnapped two people tonight and took them to the Parakhua main market and shot them dead in front of the Ambikagiri Ray Choudhury library around 8.45 pm, police sources said. |
| In another incident early morning, police said 12 heavily armed militants kidnapped four persons, including a woman, from Dehori and Rongbong Hat villages last night. They were taken to an isolated place and killed, police said. |
| Sixteen Hindi-speaking people, including two women and six children, were killed and 13 others seriously injured in three attacks by Ulfa and KLNLF militants in the district on Friday night. With today's killings, the number of Hindi-speaking people killed in the state in the last two days has climbed to 22. |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the killings. The prime minister was in touch with the state government on the action being taken to give relief to the victims of the attack, the PMO spokesman said. |
| In the wake of the killings of Hindi-speaking people, particularly Biharis, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sought immediate intervention of the Centre. "It is not the first time that Hindi-speaking people, several of them from Bihar, have fallen to mindless sectarian violence in Assam. It is the duty of the Congress government of Assam and the Centre to prevent such violence. I want the Centre's UPA regime to intervene to prevent recurrence of such violence," Kumar said. Home Minister Shivraj Patil also condemned the attacks. |
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