Express News Service
GUWAHATI: Seven people from Assam, attacked by 15-20 masked men in neighbouring Meghalaya, were sent back home, the police said.
Eight construction labourers, all of them from a minority community from South Salmara-Mankachar district bordering Bangladesh, were working at the St Xavier’s College in Shait-Shait Umriod village in South West Khasi Hills. They used to stay in the college complex.
On Wednesday night, the assailants raided the campus and carried out the attack with sharp as well as blunt weapons, leaving the victims grievously injured. They were rushed to a hospital 15 km away by the college authority but one of them succumbed to his injuries later.