Langting, N C Hills:
The situation in Assam's North Cachar Hills has once again taken a turn for the worse with fresh incidents of ethnic clashes and attack on trains.
NDTV travelled inside the trouble-torn district where militants have been targeting trains, killing civilians, abducting people and burning down houses.
A day before the NDTV team arrived, the militants had fired upon two trains and damaged the track by removing rails and felling trees. Twenty-four hours later they ambushed another emergency train and injured four persons.
"We are here just to earn for our family. This is an unliveable place but we are forced to stay here for the sake of our children," said Sharad Yadav, a local.
The militant outfit DHD (J) has reiterated its threat that every train passing by that section will be attacked. Five stations in the hill section have been shut down for a year now. The rest of them are operating under heavy security.
Its not just militant violence but also communal clashes that have broken out between Dimasas and Jemi Nagas. More than hundred and fifty houses have been set on fire and close to fifty people have died in these attacks.
It is a state of total anarchy in Assam's N C Hills where a 5000 strong security personnel are fighting not more than 250 cadres of a militant outfit.
The militants have held to ransom at least two major national projects and disrupted the railways, paralysing at least three states of the Northeast and the South of Assam.