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Indian officials say as many as 80,000 villagers have been forced to leave their homes amid clashes between indigenous Bodo tribes and Bangladeshi settlers in the north-eastern state of Assam. The state has deployed thousands of additional police to stem the clashes, which have claimed at least 36 lives since Saturday. Most of the victims were Muslims who had illegally migrated from neighbouring Bangladesh. The region has been the site of a long-simmering conflict as local, mostly Hindu, Assam tribes fear being overrun by Muslim immigrants.