Gauhati, India: Clashes between Bodo community and Muslim settlers in India have claimed 17 lives so far as the country’s army moved in to stop further violence in Kokrajhar district.
The clashes in Assam state began Friday after assailants killed one person. As the violence spread to more than half a dozen villages in the region, nearly 7,000 people fled their homes and took refuge in state-run relief camps, The Associated Press quoted
S.N. Singh, a police inspector-general, as saying.
State authorities called in the army and imposed a night curfew in the region on Saturday to quell violence on Saturday, after which no clashes have been reported yet.
The soldiers have been patrolling the violence-hit region, Singh said.
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