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== Attacks ==
In the midst of heightened Anti-[[Bengali Hindu]] sentiment, physical attacks on the [[Bengali Hindus]] started. On the night of 25 April 1948 a [[Bengali Hindu]] Railway Medical Service staff was attacked and wounded by an Assamese skilled labourer. On 28 April, a [[Bengali Hindu]] worker was beaten up by an Assamese porter of the railway engineering department. In mid-May, the altercations between the Assamese students and Bengali staff and Assam Railway escalated to violence.{{cn|date=July 2023}}
On 17 May, the District Railway Traffic Superintendent and one electrical foreman were beaten up by the Assamese students in [[Uzan Bazaar]]. On the next day, rioters stopped a shuttle train carrying railway staff from [[Pandu, Guwahati|Pandu]] to Uzan Bazaar Ghat was stopped at [[Uzan Bazaar]] and the attacked the railway staff, wounding 8-10 men. The Deputy Commissioner of Police of Guwahati reached the spot with a small contingent and transferred the wounded to hospital. The [[Bengali Hindu]] staff of the Bengal and Assam Railway called for general strike and shifted their families from [[Uzan Bazaar]], as it was an Assamese dominated locality. On the morning of 19 May, a few [[Bengali Hindus]] were attacked on their way to [[Uzan Bazaar]] and looted of everything. The Guwahati Middle English School was burnt down. In the evening, hundreds of Assamese rioters attacked the railway quarters and set them on fire. The [[Bengali Hindu]] residents ran away from the quarters to save their lives. The railway police fired on the rioters, wounding a few. Two rioters were critically wounded. Just after that, [[Bengali Hindu]] owned departmental stores, diary, pharmacy and jewelry shops were attacked and looted in [[Pan Bazaar]]. According to an Anandabazar Patrika report, only the Bengali Hindu owned businesses had been attacked, not a single business owned by the Bengali-speaking Muslims were attacked. At the midnight of 19 May, the Deputy Commissioner of Kamrup District promulgated Section 144 of the [[Code of Criminal Procedure (India)|CrPC]] in the Guwahati municipal area and adjoining region, including [[Pandu, Guwahati|Pandu]] for the next 14 days. Assembly of five or more persons or travelling together in any vehicle and carrying arms was prohibited.
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