Information About Incident 69082-141497-359226 in Kokrajhar India

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This was followed by indiscriminate firing by the insurgents at Balapara-I village in neighbouring Kokrajhar District in the early hours on May 2 which left eight persons dead and injuring several others in their own houses.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Balapara Kokrajhar District
• Matched District: Kokrajhar
• Actgroup: injure
• Actor: I
• Subject: several others

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The Hindu reports that nine more bodies were recovered from a village in Baksa District in the morning of May 3 (today), taking the toll to 32 in the violence unleashed by IK Songbhijit faction of National democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-IKS) militants in Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTAD) area in Assam. The bodies of the victims, including four children and two women, were recovered from Khagrabari village under Salbari sub-division adjacent to the Manas National Park, official sources said. Bodies of two children were identified as Ilina Khatun and Ariful Islam. Besides Chirang and parts of Dhubri Districts, indefinite curfew has also been imposed in Kokrajhar and Baksa Districts where 23 people were killed. The violence started when heavily armed NDFB-IKS militants entered a house and shot dead three members of a family, including two women, and injured an infant of a minority community near Ananda Bazar area in Baksa District on May 1. This was followed by indiscriminate firing by the insurgents at Balapara-I village in neighbouring Kokrajhar District in the early hours on May 2 which left eight persons dead and injuring several others in their own houses. Again, in the night of May 2, 12 bullet-riddled bodies, including those of five women and a child, were recovered from Nankekhadrabari and Nayanguri villages in Baksa District where nearly 100 houses and a wooden bridge were set ablaze by the militants. The Army has been staging flag marches in the violence-hit areas to instill confidence among people and to bring the situation under control, sources said.

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