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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Assam
On 24 June 2004, seven persons were
reportedly killed and fifteen others were
injured when an improvised explosive
device exploded on the roof of a private
mini bus at Mazgaon (Mathurapur) under
Sivsagar district. Four passengers died on
the spot while three others succumbed to
their injuries on the way to hospitals. 83
On 25 August 2004, unidentified
members of the armed groups exploded a
grenade outside a movie theater in
Dibrugarh district wounding eight people,
including two police constables. 84
On 26 August 2004, 4 persons
including five-year-old minor Nandini
Kumar were reportedly killed in an
explosion caused by suspected ULFA
cadres at Paikan in Meghalaya-Assam
border. Another explosion was carried out
inside a passenger bus at Gossaigaon town
in Kokrajhar district killing one person
and injuring 37 others. 85
On 2 October 2004, the alleged ULFA
and NDFB cadres triggered off a series of
blasts in different places in lower Assam
killing about 35 people and injuring about
100 others. 86
At around 5.30 pm on 2 October 2004,
an alleged group of NDFB cadres stormed
the Makrijhora weekly market on National
Highway 31 in Dhubri district and opened
fire killing 11 persons on the spot and
seriously injured four others. 87 On 3
October 2004, twelve more persons were
reportedly killed and 58 injured by the
armed opposition groups. 88 On 4 October,
alleged NDFB cadres reportedly shot dead
at least six people and injured 10 others in
the Gelapukhuri area in Biswanath Chariali
in Sonitpur district. 89 On 5 October 2004,
suspected NDFB rebels killed at least ten
villagers and injured seven others in
Jalabila village under Bagaribari police
station in Dhubri district. 90
Two persons were reportedly killed
and eight others were injured when two
explosives went off in front of Hatigaon
outpost under Dispur police station in
Guwahati on 13 December 2004. 91 As
many as six bomb were triggered off in
different places in Assam on the evening
of 14 December 2004, killing one person
in Nagaon district and injuring about 50
people in Guwahati. 92 Five persons were
seriously injured when suspected ULFA
cadres lobbed a grenade at a place near the
Town Tinali at Silapathar in Dhemaji
district at around 5.40 p.m. on 15
December 2004. 93 One person was
reportedly killed and 11 others injured,
including a woman and a 14-year-old boy
in a grenade explosion in the busy Paltan
Bazar area in Guwahati at 5.20 p.m. on 17
December 2004. 94
The armed opposition groups were
also responsible for kidnapping and
serving notices to the management of the
tea gardens for extortions. 95
On 21 February 2004, the United
Peoples Democratic Solidarity (UPDS)
cadres reportedly kidnapped two tea
executives- field officer and assistant
manager of the Bhagawati tea estate - M
Kumar and Ranjit Deb from Bokajan area
of Karbi Anglong district. 96
On the night of 28 April 2004,
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