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| Troops on red alert in India's northeast after rebels kill 15 |
| 2007-08-10 |
| Federal soldiers in India's restive northeast went on maximum alert Thursday after separatists killed 15 people in a string of attacks ahead of Independence Day, officials said. "Army, police, and the paramilitary troopers were deployed in strength across the state to foil rebel attacks with militants trying to step up violence in the run-up to India's Independence Day celebrations," on August 15, Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi told AFP. The latest violence left eight Hindi-speaking migrant workers dead on Wednesday in Assam's eastern Karbi Anglong district. The shooting was blamed on militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) and the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF). "The attack on innocent civilians, particularly the Hindi-speaking workers, is nothing but acts of desperation by the militants," said LR Bishnoi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in Karbi Anglong. |
| Posted by:Fred |