SIVASAGAR, Oct 31 � Tension prevailed along the Assam-Nagaland border area at Sonari in Sivasagar district following opening of fire by Naga miscreants on Friday night. According to sources, a group of around 30-40 suspected NSCN cadres opened fire at around 9,45 pm that night towards Janaki Pathar area from Nagaland side and later escaped. Receiving the information, a team of high officials, including security personnel, of the subdivision reached the spot.
Sources said that after the firing, at least 15-20 families of the village of the border area fled from the area.
Sources also said that the NSCN opened fire with a view to threatening the villagers so that they could carry out their extortion drive in the border areas.
Several organisations of Sonari have slammed the Congress-led Government in Assam for its alleged failure to protect villagers living close to Nagaland border from persecution by the people of the neighbouring State.
