Gujarat, Sunday 05 Oct 2008: Shoot at sight orders were issued Saturday in Assam’s curfew bound district of Udalguri, where seven people were killed and more than 50 injured in clashes between two communities even as a cluster of villages were set ablaze, Officials said.

More than 200 houses were set ablaze in about six villages, More than 50 people were wounded, some with bullets the official said.

Thousands of villagers have fled their homes and are now sheltering in makeshift relief camps set up the police.

Violence broke out Friday between two communities in Rowta in Udalguri district, about 100 km north of Assam’s main city Guwahati.

There are an estimated 4,000 people of various ethnic communities sheltered in camps. These people had fled fearing attacks or belonged to villages where miscreants had torched their homes.