Security personnel patrol during a curfew in Baksa district in Assam May 4, 2014. REUTERS/Utpal Baruah
NARAYANGURI India (Reuters) - Families of Muslim villagers massacred on the fringes of an Indian national park were burying their loved ones after a spasm of ethnic violence in the northeastern state of Assam cast a shadow over the world's biggest ever election.
On Monday, villagers in Narayanguri laid to rest a baby girl, one of at least 21 victims of a massacre by suspected tribal militants who threw dead and dying into blazing huts and gunned down women and children as they fled towards a nearby river. Many of the other dead were buried on Sunday.
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