BODO: Three persons, a policeman and two civilians were killed and several others injured as the All Bodo Student Union (ABSU) sponsored 340 hour state wide strike entered its eighth day on June 4, A policeman and a civilian driver were killed. and seven other policemen were injured in a bomb. blastin Kachikotra village in Kokaraghan district.
Official sources said that the police party in a requisitioned vehicle was stuck by a bomb planted by Bodo militants when it was on a road Clearing operation.
The vehicle was badly damaged by the bomb.
The Bodo’s are agitating because of alleged discrimination against them by the Assamese government. They want a separate state for the tribals of the plains of Assam,
Twenty four people were killed in one week of violence in the area. On June 26, ten police personal were killed and seven injured when a bomb exploded in a bus at Bhurtinali near the Indo Bhutan border.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 7, 1989
