5 dead in suspected militant attack in Assam’s Dima Hasao

Five people were killed in Assam’s Dima Hasao district after militants attacked their trucks and set them ablaze on Thursday night.

Authorities said they have recovered five charred bodies and as per intelligence inputs, militant outfit Dimasa National Liberation Army was behind the attack.

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Authorities said the suspected militants allegedly stopped the trucks carrying clinker and coal and fired indiscriminately on them. A few trucks reportedly managed to escape.

Formed in 2019, the DNLA seeks to form a “sovereign and independent nation” of the Dimasa tribe, one of the earliest inhabitants — and rulers — of the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam.