One person was killed and a child seriously injured when unidentified armed miscreants attacked them while they were working in a field in Assam’s trouble-torn North Cachar Hills district on Tuesday. This took the death toll in the ethnic clashes between Dimasa and Zeme tribals to 60 since March.

The deceased, identified as Adyanath Langthasa (37), a Dimasa tribal, was shot from close range while he was working in his paddy field. His seven-year-old son Babloo, who had accompanied his father to the field, sustained serious injuries and was shifted to the Haflong Civil Hospital. The incident occurred near the Dijaobra railway station at around 10:30 am.

It was only on Monday that a 60-year old Dimasa woman and her son were gunned down by unidentified militants near village Natun Wari under Haflong police station. The bullet-riddled bodies of Anjana Warisa and her son Jayfolal Warisa (40) were recovered by villagers from a field.

With Tuesday’s incident, the death toll in the district in July has gone up to 10. Seven people including four children, all belonging to the Dimasa tribe, were killed when militants attacked them in a village at Semkhor under Maibang police station on July 1.