By NNN-PTI,
Udalguri, India : Five persons were killed in continuing violent clashes between Bodos and Bangladeshi migrants in this Assam district today as the toll in the conflict that broke since Friday mounted to 21.
Police said five migrants were hacked to death and another one was critically injured by unidentified persons at Dimakuchi weekly market, where they had come to trade in dry fish.
The injured was identified as Babul Ali and rushed to hospital at Udalguri town.
Police said unidentified persons attacked several Bangladeshi immigrants at Khoirbari area in the district in the early hours of the day and burnt down 11 houses.
Yet another house was burnt down at Tangla in neighbouring Darrang district but there was no casualty in any of the two incidents.
Police had to fire in the air at Tiyajhar in Udalguri district to disperse a mob resulting in the injury of two persons.
Army staged flag marches in all the affected areas of Darrang and Udalguri and indefinite curfew continued at Dalgaon and Dhola in the two districts respectively.
The army has deployed 10 companies in the two trouble-torn districts, official sources said.
Thousand of Bodos have fled their homes in panic and have taken shelter in temporary relief camps set up by the administration in five places, they said.
Udalguri Deputy Commissioner George Basumatary has been transferred and SP Anup Kumar Singh suspended for dereliction of duty and have been replaced by Kamal Mahanta and A K Tiwari respectively.