LONE SURVIVOR OF DHOLA INCIDENT SPEAKS OF HIS ORDEAL

Tinsukia, November 3, 2018:

Days after the Dhola incident, Sahadev Namashudra recalled the terror he went through when unidentified miscreants shot dead five people.

19-year-old Namashudra is the lone survivor of the bloody incident that took place at Kherbari in Tinsukia district late on November 1.

"A group of people in Army fatigue came to our shop at around 7.45pm. They called us outside and took us to a nearby place. They asked us to line up and said they wanted to ask us something," said Namashudra, who miraculously survived the massacre.

"We had to line up. Suddenly I heard gunfire. I jumped towards a low land. There was some smoke and I could hear more rounds of gunfire. There was chaos. I remained lying down for five to 10 minutes in the dark.

"When I looked for others who were in the group, I saw someone lying on the ground."

"I started running towards my house. I called the others, only to find five blood stained bodies."

According to him, when the killers who he feels were militants left the scene, they were conversing in Assamese.

"But with us they spoke in Hindi. I am alive because I jumped on the other side of the place where we were lined up. It was dark and perhaps they did not see me when I jumped."

Namashudra is still terrified and trying to come out of the trauma he has gone through.