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Toll in northeast India market attack jumps to 15

NEW DELHI, (APP/AFP) – The death toll from an
attack in India’s northeastern Assam state, where gunmen
opened fire on a busy market, jumped to 15 on Saturday as
three more people succumbed to their injuries.
The dead included a militant from a faction of the
outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB),
which has waged a decades-long campaign for an independent
homeland for the indigenous Bodo people.
Police say that around six gunmen were behind Friday’s
attack, one of whom was later killed by security forces who
were searching for the other attackers.
“One person died on Saturday morning and another two
succumbed to their injuries overnight. The death toll from
the attack is now 15 including one militant,” Assam state
health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told AFP on Saturday.