With no fresh incident
reported, curfew was today relaxed for 12 hours here in this headquarters of the trouble-torn Karbi Anglong district, where a 300-hour bandh is being observed since August 5 in support of the demand for a separate state.
Official sources said that normalcy largely returned to the district, parts of which witnessed violence by activists of the Karbi Peoples Liberation Tigers for five days since July 31 in which two persons were killed and several others injured. Government property was also burnt.
No fresh violence on the demand for a separate Karbi state on the lines of Telangana was reported so far, prompting the authorities to relax the curfew in Diphu from 6 AM to 6 PM, the sources said.
