2014 Assam violence | |
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Part of Insurgency in Northeast India | |
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Location | Assam, India |
Date | 1 May 2014 | – 3 May 2014
Weapons | AK 47[1] |
Deaths | 33 and 3 suspects[2][3] |
Motive | Not voting for Bodos[4] |
From the night of 1 May 2014 until the early morning hours of 3 May a series of attacks occurred on the Bengali Muslims in Assam, a north-eastern state of India. The perpetrator is suspected to be the terrorist group National Democratic Front of Bodoland's Songbijit faction.[3][5] Speculated to be revenge for not voting for the National Democratic Front in the Lok Sabha elections,[4] the death toll reached 32.[6]
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