Indian Muslims Flee Homes After Rebel Massacres in Assam
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Dozens of Muslim families fled their homes in India’s northeastern Assam state where soldiers were deployed to keep order after masked tribal militants gunned down at least 32 villagers, mostly women and children.
About 300 refugees were living at a relief camp set up about five kilometers (3 miles) from the worst-hit villages in Baksa district, Khagen Sarma, Assam’s director-general of police, said by telephone from Guwahati today. Some of the victims bodies were pulled out of a river near the villages, S.N. Singh, Assam’s inspector general of police for law and order, said in a phone interview while updating the death toll.