Guwahati, May 15
Eleven persons, including a railway engine driver, were killed and at least two others were injured in two separate attacks carried out by suspected militants of Black Widow or anti-talk faction of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) outfit in North Cachar Hill district of Assam this morning, police and railway sources informed.
With today’s killings, the toll of the current spell of violence in the hill district, which erupted on Saturday, went up to 34. A convoy of trucks was attacked. Ten persons were gunned down and five trucks were torched.
The victims included all the drivers and helpers of the trucks. In another incident, an engine driver of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) was killed and two other railway staffers injured when militants opened fire at a NFR special patrol train at around 6.35 this morning between Mopa and Kalachand Railway stations.
NFR spokesman Samir Goswami informed that the train carrying an inspection team came under heavy attack from the militants sitting on a hilltop as soon as it had come out of one of the tunnels on the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the NFR. Engine driver N.N. Bora died on the spot while assistant engine driver P.K. Deb and gangman Ramesh Thakuria were injured in the attack.
