Tensions escalated in Assam as Indian security forces launched a major counter-insurgency operation in the state yesterday, a day after suspected militants of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA-Independent) shot dead five Bangla-speaking men.

The walls of the school were adorned with pictures of the victims of the militant attack at Holey Artisan Bakery.

Fourteen civilians are killed when an unidentified militant starts firing at people at a weekly market at Balajan Tiniali in Kokrajhar town in Assam, India.