death toll hits 43 after attacks on Muslims in Assam Indian police discovered five more bodies of women and children
Historic Panbari Mosque at Dhubri , Assam Indian police discovered five more bodies of women and children on Wednesday after a "barbaric" rampage by tribal separatists targeting Muslims in north-east Assam, taking the total number killed to 43. The bodies were found as authorities continued their search of two districts in the remote tea-growing state where masked gunmen last week shot dead Muslim villagers, including babies, as they slept. Police have accused tribal Bodo rebels of killing the Muslims, whose migrant community has been locked for years in land disputes with the indigenous group in the state, which borders Bhutan and Bangladesh. Local media have reported that Bodos attacked the Muslims as punishment for failing to vote for their candidate last month in the country's mammoth staggered election, which is drawing to a close. The Assam chief minister, Tarun Gogoi, told reporters from the worst-hit Narayanguri village: "So far the death toll is