Authorities found eight bodies today in Assam which is located at 40 the number of deaths in a week of ethnic and religious clashes in this region of northeast India, local media reported. The bodies life were found in the districts of Kokrajhar and Chirang, the most affected by an outbreak of violence that has forced some 177,000people to flee their homes and seek refuge in camps designated by management. "25 people have died so far in Kokrajhar and 15 in Chirang "he told PTI the inspector general of police in Assam, LR Bishnoi. The clashes are taking place in an area known as "the land of the Bodos" and face a territorial issue to members of minority ethnic community with Muslim immigrants arrived in the last decades of neighboring Bangladesh. According to the official, the fighting began last Thursday after an attack on two Muslim students was answered with the murder of four Bodo rebels. "We asked the regional government to arrest the leaders of the two sides to end violence", said the Indian Secretary of the Interior, RKSingh. Several military columns have been deployed to assist the police in the affected districts, which remains in place a curfew. Also sent security forces to guard the trains to enable the resumption of rail service, paralyzed from Monday across the region by protests and sabotage. The Indian television showed images of several villages destroyed by rebels on both sides, with smoky huts and houses reduced to rubble. According to the agency IANS, at least five villages have suffered this fate in the last 24 hours in the area. "The land of the Bodos" is a semi-autonomous territory of Assam located north of the river Brahmaputra between Bhutan and Bangladesh, which makes door to a narrow corridor that links northeastern India with the rest of the country. The northeast consists of seven small states with large ethnic and linguistic diversity in which they operate hundreds of insurgent groups, most sovereigntist aspirations, although many are inactive.
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