Diphu: After the Telangana announcement by the Congress, the demand for separate statehood has grown louder in other regions as well. Violent protests have engulfed the districts of Karbi, Anglong and Dima Hasao in Assam, where protesters are demanding a separate state.
As large-scale arson broke out, the Army, called in on Wednesday, was on stand by to assist the Karbi Anglong district administration with police and paramilitary forces on patrol, official sources in Diphu said. One person Gautam Timung was killed in police firing on Thursday taking the death toll to two in Karbi Anglong district with statehood agitators defying indefinite curfew and targeting All India Radio and other public buildings in Diphu over the demand for a separate state carved out of two Assam districts.
The incident happened when agitators tried to remove a section of railway line after they were repaired following removal of another portion at a place between Doldoli and Dhansiri on the Diphu-Dimapur line, official sources said. 22-year-old college student Rahul Signa, who was injured in police firing on Wednesday, died of his injuries late on Wednesday night, the sources said.
The police fired in the air near the All India Radio building after agitators set ablaze satellite dishes halting broadcast and relay and torched a waiting room made of wood, the sources said. Also set on fire were wooden offices of the Public Works Department, Forest and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, the sources said.
The office of the Assam Sahitya Sabha, Assam's apex literary body, was damaged as also books, they said.
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