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Assam violence spreads as death toll rises over 30
Updated On: 25 July, 2012 09:22 AM IST | | Agencies
Sectarian strife raged in interior areas of Assam's three districts Tuesday even as security personnel shot dead four miscreants, taking the death toll in the region to 32
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A worried Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi urged Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Defence Minister A.K. Antony to rush more paramilitary forces and troops to end the savagery.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi called up Gogoi to know the latest situation. An estimated 40,000 people have fled their homes looking for safer areas.
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Many who lost their dear and near ones wept openly.
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Villagers flee their homes at Dujabari village in Kokrajhar district of Assam. Photo: AFP
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