Tribal separatists killed at least 34 people, including four women, in a series of attacks in India´s remote northeastern state of Assam yesterday, police said.
The attacks took place in the two districts of Kokrajhar and Sonitpur, senior state police official SN Singh said, with the deadliest claiming 26 lives.
Police blamed the attacks on the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which has been demanding a separate homeland for decades.
“Of the 34 killed in the two districts, 26 were in Sonitpur district,” Singh told the media.
“There has been about four separate attacks by the NDFB,” he said.
The authorities have issued a ´red alert´ in the state and imposed a night-time curfew, Indian news channels channel reported.
Singh added that most of the victims of the latest fighting in the area, a site of frequent ethnic clashes, were members of the Adivasi tribal community, primarily tea plantation workers.
