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Assamese insurgents hack 22 Karbi tribals

     Hamren/Diphu (Assam): Rebel Assamese insurgents hacked at least 22 tribals belonging to the warring Karbi and Dimasa tribes in Central Assam's Karbi Anglong hill district on Monday. District Superintendent of Police Pankaj Sarma said unidentified militants, with their faces covered in black cloth, waylaid the two buses coming from Jirikinding to Hamren and the district headquarters of Diphu at Jengkha at around 8 a.m. The insurgents then identified Karbi passengers and after asking them to alight from the Diphu-bound bus hacked them to death before setting their vehicle and the other bus on fire completely burning down the first one and the other partially. The Hamren-bound passengers reported the incident at the Milu police outpost under Kheroni police station, about 130-km from here, Sarma said. The two long distance buses belonged to the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council. The SP, alongwith security forces, rushed there and cordoned off the area and intensified security arrangements.

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