“I want to coordinate with neighbouring Bhutan as the militants may hide there after committing the crime. If the NIA comes then that can be done,” the chief minister said.
Gogoi said that he had spoken to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and also sought a company of COBRA commandos of the CRPF.
“Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has condemned the violence in Assam in which many precious lives have been lost and a large number of people injured,” the PMO in Delhi said in a statement.
Singh expressed “shock and grief” and said “such attacks are cowardly attempts to spread fear and terror among our citizens.”
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) A P Rout said that six of the ten companies of paramilitary forces sent by the Centre had reached Assam with three of them sent to Kokrajhar and two to Baksa.
Another company was en route to Udalguri district under BTAD as a preventive measure, he said. “There is no fresh violent incident reported today and the bodies recovered this morning are from yesterday's incident”, IGP-BTAD L R Bishnoi told PTI.
Asked if shoot-at-sight orders were issued in the BTAD, Bishnoi said, “No such order has been issued. There is no logic for such an order.”
The IGP said that the indefinite curfew imposed since yesterday was relaxed today in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts for four hours from 12 noon with no fresh violence reported. The precautionary curfew promulgated in another BTAD district Chirang was also relaxed for three hours from noon, the sources said.
The Army was staging flag marches in the violence-hit areas to instill confidence among people and to bring the situation under control, the sources said. A total of 22 people were arrested in connection with the violence, sources said.
