Four Hindi-speaking persons shot dead in Assam

GUWAHATI: Continuing attacks on Hindi-speaking people in Assam, ULFA and Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants on Sunday shot dead four persons in Karbi-Anglon district.

Police said 12 heavily armed militants kidnapped the four persons, including a woman, from upper Dehori and Rongbong Hat villages on Saturday night.

They were taken to an isolated place near Rongbong Hat Tiniali and shot dead, they said.

Sixteen Hindi-speaking people, including two women and six children, were killed and 13 others seriously injured in three joint attacks by ULFA and KLNLF militants in the same district on Friday night.

With today's killing, the toll of Hindi-speaking people killed over the last two days has climbed to 20.