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On 30 December 1997, gunmen belonging to National Democratic Front of Bodoland gunned down 12 Bengali Hindus in the outskirts of Nislamari in Darrang district (now in Udalguri district). The dead included a six-month-old baby and six women. On the next day the group attacked another village nearby and killed 9 Bengalis.