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One person was killed and three others injured when armed miscreants from the Nagaland side opened fire on a group of farmers from the Assam side in a village located on the inter-state border in Golaghat district on Thursday morning, with the police suspecting hand of the NSCN in it. The deceased, a 60-year old person, has been identified as Prem Ekka.
Golaghat Additional Superintendent of Police Nomal Mahatte said a group of villagers from Ratanpur village under Uriamghat police station were harvesting paddy in a field owned by a Naga person when a group of armed miscreants chased them and opened fire. “No villager from the Nagaland side was however involved in the attack. In fact when we reached the place, Naga villagers told us that it was the handiwork of some armed miscreants. We suspect them to be of the NSCN,” he said.
Uriamghat was in the news in August this year when armed miscreants from Nagaland had allegedly set several villages inside Assam on fire, leading to displacement of over 10,000 persons. While 13 persons had lost their lives in the August violence, about 1,000 people are still lodged in relief camps as they feared they would be attacked again if they returned to their respective villages.
Organisations in Wokha, the adjoining Nagaland district on their part claim that about 1,000 Naga villagers were also displaced when armed groups from the Assam side attacked their villages.
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