News Kokrajhar attack: 12 killed after militants open fire in market

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Twelve people, including a suspected militant, were killed and nearly 20 others injured when gunfire broke out at a market in Assam on Friday afternoon.

The incident occurred at Balajan Tiniali in Kokrajhar town, about 220 km west of Guwahati, when 3-4 masked gunmen, dressed in black, indiscriminately began firing at the crowded market.

Assam’s director general of police, Mukesh Sahay, said they suspected the gunmen to be part of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland-Songbijit (NDFB-S) faction, CNN reported.

Assam: 12 killed in suspected Bodo militant attack on Kokrajhar market | india-news | Hindustan Times
 
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The terrorist attack in Kokrajhar on Friday was being seen as the handiwork of insurgent outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland+ (Songbijit), which switched its tactic and target to pass off the strike as an act of jihadi terror.

In Friday's attack, suspected members of the anti-talks Songbijit faction, which has been implicably hostile to a truce with the Centre, targeted Bodos, among others, in a desperate tactic to distract security forces from themselves, and turn their attention towards the jihadi outfits that have lately been active in the region. NDFB (S) is known to carefully choose its targets on the basis of ethnicity, picking their victims from among Muslims and Adivasis (tribals), while sparing the Bodos.

At least six of the 13 killed in the indiscriminate firing on Friday+ were Bodos — a stark departure from its known pattern. "The target and modus operandi adopted by the NDFB (S) militants marks a departure from previous attacks, such as the killing of Adivasis in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar in December 2014 or the May 2014 Assam violence that claimed the lives of 32 Muslims," an officer of the central security establishment pointed out.


Assam attack: Phone found on slain killer reveals it wasn’t a jihadi hit - Times of India
 
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