Tension brews in Assam

GUWAHATI: Tension was brewing in the Lower Assam areas with suspected anti-talk fraction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) ambushed the convoy of Kokrajhar parliamentarian Sansuma Khungur Bwiswmuthiary in Kokrajhar on Friday. Two people were killed in the ambush.

Police sources said that Bodoland Peoples Front MP Bwiswmuthiary and some media persons had to face bullets from militants.

Superintendent of police of the district, P K Dutta told ET, Bwiswmuthiary escaped unhurt. One security guards and driver were killed. However the vehicle in which he was traveling was damaged.