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No breakthrough on trucker killers

Sensation still prevails in Joypur area in Kokrajhar a day after miscreants shot dead a trucker forcing the security to step up offensive against the perpetrators.

Police men tracking the case are tightlipped on the breakthrough where the miscreants started indiscriminate firing at a truck leaving the driver Kiren Ray who hails from Salmara area in Bongaigaon dead on the spot.

Identified as Ranja Sangma ,the helper who sustained bullet injury has battling for life in the hospital.

The miscreants targeted the LPG truck bearing registration no. NL-01L 1021 when it was on its way Guwahati from West Bengal.

 

 

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