Uneasy Calm in Assam, Violence Toll 40

Kokrajhar Deputy Commissioner Donald Gilselon added that there had not been any incident in the district since Tuesday. "We have decided to relax curfew from 8 a.m. to 12 noon," he said.

Sixty-seven companies of central paramilitary forces had been deployed in the areas. Some forces had also been deployed in Dhubri, where violence had spread but had been contained later.

Apart from this, close to 4,000 troops have been deployed in the violence affected areas, an official said.

The army had Wednesday staged a flag march in the violence affected areas and in the sensitive areas of BTAD.

Kokrajhar, Chirang and Dhubri share a contiguous landscape. While Dhubri shares the border with Bangladesh in the south, Kokrajhar and Chirang border Bhutan.

According to official sources, the violence started July 19 after gunmen attacked two student leaders in Magurbari. Following this, four former Bodo militants were shot dead.

Both the communities then began attacking each other, accusing each other of orchestrating ethnic cleansing.