With the recovery of more bodies the death toll climbed from the overnight figure of 48 to 65. The figure includes 21 women and 18 children.
READ ALSO: Bodo militants kill 48 adivasis in Assam
The decision for the offensive was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by home minister Rajnath Singh and attended by top officials of ministries of home, defence and paramilitary forces, sources said.
"This was an act of terror and we will deal with it accordingly... whatever action is required, we will take," Rajnath Singh told reporters after the meeting in New Delhi
Describing the attack on adivasi villagers by the Songbijit faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), as "very unfortunate and cowardly act", he said 50 companies (5000 personnel) of paramilitary forces have been rushed to Assam to assist the state government to deal with the situation arising out of the violence in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts.
Tribal plantation workers armed with tools for self-defence move to a safer place after ethnic clashes in Tenganala village in Sonitpur district. (Reuters Photo)
On Wednesday morning three more adivasis were killed in police firing when hundreds of them went on the rampage at Biswanath Chariali in worst-hit Sonitpur district in protest. In Kokrajhar, adivasi miscreants beheaded two Bodos.
READ ALSO: Adivasis retaliate, kill 2 Bodos, torch a village
The operations led by the Army were launched late Tuesday night immediately after telephonic discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Tarun Gogoi. Union home minister Rajnath Singh and his deputy Kiren Rijiju rushed to Guwahati on Wednesday evening to fine-tune the strategy to rein in the outfit.
BJP supporters stage a protest against the brutal killing of innocent people by NDFB militants.(PTI Photo)
Gogoi said, "We are going all out against the militants. I had a discussion with Prime Minister last night and the Centre has given directives to the Army to take out these militants. The Centre has also sent us 55 companies of central paramilitary forces and 20 of them have already arrived."
The chief minister and the Union home minister will be holding a meeting this evening shortly after the latter arrives here from New Delhi to discuss the next strategy.
"The militants have shelters in Bhutan and Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh. We cannot act on these areas and I will be asking the home minister to take up the issues with other countries and our neighbouring states," Gogoi said.
"Something like 'Operation All Clear' is needed," he said. Operation All Clear was a military offensive conducted by Royal Bhutan Army against Assam insurgent groups like ULFA and NDFB in 2003. India provided logistic support to Bhutan, including evacuation of its injured army personnel in the operation.
"Our immediate action is to stop spillage of the violence and its transformation into an ethnic clash. We are appealing to all sections of people to remain calm and not to take law in their hands," Gogoi said after reports of retaliation by adivasis arrived. At Pabhoi area, adivasi and Bodo villagers torched each others villages but there was no human casualty reported.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Modi has expressed grief over the loss of lives in the militant attacks in Assam.
READ ALSO: PM sanctions Rs 2 lakh each for kin of deceased
He has sanctioned ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 to seriously injured persons from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund. Rs 86 lakh is being released to state government from PMNRF.
(Inputs from PTI)
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