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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.
Masked men in Meghalaya kill worker from Assam, college shut
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February 26, 2021 15:01 IST
‘On Feb. 22, headman and other members of the village authority came and told us the labourers cannot work in the college,’ says vice-principal
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‘On Feb. 22, headman and other members of the village authority came and told us the labourers cannot work in the college,’ says vice-principal
Officials in Meghalaya’s West Khasi Hills district have sent seven labourers home in Assam after masked men attacked them at a construction site on Wednesday night. A labourer died of his injures in hospital.
The missionary college where they were working has also been closed for an indefinite period in view of the attack.