Guwahati: At least 17 people were killed and several wounded on Friday in a string of attacks by insurgents in Assam.
A police spokesman said there were at least six separate attacks and an explosion targeting the migrant workers in the eastern districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia.
"So far 17 people have been killed and at least seven wounded in separate attacks with suspected militants of the opening fire on groups of Hindi-speaking people. There has been one bomb explosion as well," a senior police official said.
Three attacks took place in the Tinsukia district and three more in the adjoining Dibrugarh district.
"Eight people were killed and three injured in Tinsukia district, most of them brick kiln workers and petty shopkeepers who were Hindi-speaking people," Tinsukia district magistrate Absar Hazarika told IANS over telephone.
"This is definitely the handiwork of the ULFA and we see the attacks as retaliation with security forces in the last week killing five militants capturing two more in separate raids."
Seven people were killed in Dibrugarh district in similar circumstances.
"Militants first struck at a place under the Joypur police station in Dibrugarh district killing four workers of a brick kiln and injuring four others," a police official said.
Three people were killed in a bomb explosion near a tea garden on the outskirts of Dibrugarh. "First information says the victims were Hindi speaking people," the official said.
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