Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday informed that a shoot-at-sight order had been issued along Assam-Meghalaya boundary area in Goalpara district to contain the ethnic violence that had so far claimed 9 lives and injured 20 besides displacing over 34,000 people.
Ten companies of additional central forces arrived in Assam to contain violence along the inter-state boundary, Gogoi informed, adding that so far 110 miscreants involved in the strife had been arrested by Assam Police.
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram is also keeping tab of the situation.
He called upon both the communities to see reasons and restore their age-old peaceful co-existence. He informed both the state governments were in constant touch and monitoring the situation unfolding on both sides of the inter-state
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