One killed, four injured in mob attack in Assam

One person was killed and four others were seriously injured when a mob attacked them on suspicion of cattle theft in Assam’s Kokrajhar district, police said on Tuesday.

The victims, associated with a road construction project, were returning on Monday night after a site inspection in the Aoudang area in a vehicle.

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the vehicle reached the Gouri Nagar Road stretch, a group of local villagers attempted to stop the vehicle, allegedly suspecting them to be cattle lifters, which led to an accident, and the vehicle skidded off the road.

The mob attacked the occupants and set the vehicle on fire, with the occupants receiving severe burn injuries, the police said.