Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit relief camps set up in Alipurduar area for people fleeing neighbouring lower Assam districts in the wake
of the attacks by NDFB(S) militants.
"The chief minister is leaving for Bagdogra by plane on Friday and will go to Kumargram in Alipurduar on Thursday where the relief camps have been set up by the state government," CMO sources told PTI.
Banerjee on friday has said that her government was making necessary arrangements to help to adivasis coming to the state from Assam for shelter while expressing grief over the killings.
"The brutal mass killing of adivasis in Assam by armed extremists has deeply saddened me. I strongly condemn the heinous it," Banerjee had said in a post on Facebook.
"Many adivasi families have started coming to our state for shelter. We have made necessary arrangements to help them and we will continue to do so," she added.
The death toll in Tuesday's attacks by NDFB(S) and retaliatory violence by adivasis rose to 81 on Friday with two persons succumbing to injuries in Sonitpur and Chirang last night and a charred body recovered from Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar district this morning.
