Seven companies are already deployed in the troubled border areas of Assam and Meghalaya .
Five more companies of security forces were sanctioned by the Centre for the ethnic violence hit border areas of Assam and Meghalaya as the toll in the clashes rose to seven on Friday with the recovery of two bodies.
Government sources said the Union home ministry on Friday sanctioned five more companies of paramilitary forces which were en route to the affected areas.
Seven companies are already deployed in the troubled areas.
Security forces recovered the body of 55-year-old Mintong Momin of Chotcholja village under Kharkutta police outpost from Salpara village in Assam last evening, official sources said.
The other body, that of a college student, Sengseng Marak, was recovered from Belbari Garo village in Assam.
Of the seven casualties so far four took place in Meghalaya and three in Assam, while 30 people were injured in the attacks and were admitted at hospitals in the Garo hills.
Tension spread to the neighbouring towns of Williamnagar where a shop was burnt down and Tura where anti-Rabha posters were put up by unidentified groups.
An abandoned village was burnt down along the border in Mendipathar in Resubelpara subdivision of East Garo Hills district late in the night, while a shop was also torched in the headquarters town of Williamnagar, Deputy Commissioner Pravin Bakshi said.
Curfew extended to the entire Resubelpara subdivision yesterday was relaxed for three hours from 2 pm today as people were running out of provisions, Bakshi said.
Meghalaya home minister HDR Lyngdoh and civil defence minister Augustine Marak were at Resubelpara and were to visit the affected places, relief camps and interact with officials of the administration and civil society groups.
In West Garo Hills district headquarter town of Tura, posters targeting the Rabha community, but were removed by the administration.
West Garo Hills deputy commissioner Sanjay Goyal said all security measures were taken in the disturbed areas.
Nearly 20,000 people were displaced in the ethnic violence that began on January 1.
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