Saturday, December 24 2005 14:35 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kokrajhar (Assam): Stray violence was reported in Kokrajhar district today (Dec 24, 2005) as a truck of Haryana Police set ablaze on National Highway 31, while normal life was affected by a spontaneous bandh at Salakati and Gossaigaon against the killing of three Bodo students by the security men at Salakati railway station in the district yesterday (Dec 23, 2005).

The Bodoland Peoples Progressive Forum (Rabiram Brahma faction) has also called a 12-hour district bandh on Monday from 5 a.m. protesting against the killings.

Official sources here said that a truck of the Haryana police was stopped at a place between Kokrajhar town and Gossaigaon this morning and set on fire after the men inside were asked to alight. None was injured.

Long distance buses did noy ply in the district and private vehicles were also off the roads. Shops and markets keept their shutters down at Salakati and Gossaigaon following a spontaneous bandh observed by the people against yesterday's incident.

Today being a fourth Saturday, all Government offices, however, remained closed, while educational institutions were on winter vacation. Shops and markets in district headquarter Kokrajhar remained too closed as they always did on Saturdays.

All the trains, however, plied normally as per schedule, the sources added.

Yesterday three All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU) activists were shot dead by Haryana police personnel, drawn for the Indian Reserve Battation bound for Karbi Anglong district, and one of the IRB men was also killed at Salakati railway station amidst protests of alleged molestation of girl students by the security men inside up 4056 Brahmaputra Mail.