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One person was killed and five others were injured on Monday in a clash between alleged encroachers and forest guards at the Burhachapori Wildlife San
Family members of Rahima Khatun, the woman killed in what officials call an act of self-defence, were said to have moved there because the place they had put up tents after their eviction had been flooded.
senior official said that around hundreds of people who were evicted in February had again occupied land. Forest officials were attacked when they went to drive them away from the place. The attackers were armed with sticks and machetes. He said that situation got tensed and forest officials fired in the air to disperse the mob . One woman was killed. Four forest personnel, including divisional forest officer Jayanta Deka and three civilians from the mob were injured.
One person was killed and at least seven others were injured on Monday in a clash between alleged encroachers and forest guards at the Burhachapori Wildlife Sanctuary in Sonitpur district of Assam, officials said. Nagaon Wildlife Divisional Forest Officer Jayanta Deka claimed that alleged encroachers, who were earlier evicted from the forest, have been "trying to occupy land again" inside the sanctuary in the past few days.
