Assam: 8 dead in police firing as mob attacks polling booth

Arijit Sen , CNN-IBN | Feb 12, 2013 at 03:18pm


Guwahati: There was news of violence from lower Assam where panchayat polls were underway. Eight people died in police firing after a mob of 400 men and women from the Rabhas community armed with iron rods, axes, machetes and sticks attacked a polling station and indulged in arson. The death toll is likely to increase.

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