Quicktakes

Bunkers along LoC

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Government will build around 6,000 bunkers to protect the people living along the Line of Control. Their construction, provoked by the heavy shelling from across the border in which 60 have been killed this year, is estimated to cost Rs 16 crore. State police chief Gurbachan Jagat said the bunkers would protect Baramulla, Kupwara and Kargil districts which have faced the brunt of the LoC shelling.

Assam massacre

GUWAHATI: Thirteen persons were killed and four others injured by militants in lower Assam last night. Sources said the National Democratic Front of Bodoland NDFB militants opened fire killing three. In another incident, seven forest protection force personnel were killed in an attack by adivasi miscreants in Kokrajhar district.