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A high alert has been sounded in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district following the recovery of three bodies in neighbouring Goalpara district of Assam that are believed to be of victims of recent ethnic clashes,a senior official said.
East Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner Pravin Bakshi today said with the situation turning tense following the recovery of the corpses,belonging to a community that was involved in the tension,authorities have decided to keep the paramilitary forces in the strife-torn border pockets for some more time with greater vigil in certain areas.
There was ethnic flare-up between the Rabha and Garo communities in the area on January one and the situation was gradually getting back to normal,officials said.
The three decomposed bodies were believed to be of members of a relief team missing during the clashes and dug out from a grave in the area on January 27,the sources in Goalpara said. Four persons were missing after an attack on a relief party during the clashes. While bodies of three,belonging to one of the two local communities,were found,another still remained untraced.
Some 2,500 people displaced in the ten-day clashes are sheltered in ten relief camps in the district.
About 8,000 Rabha people who fled to Assam during the clashes are likely to be repatriated to new relief camps to be set up in Meghalaya,till their rehabilitation.
The violence had claimed 12 lives.
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