guwahatiagartala the army was called out in guwahati on wednesday evening soon after the administration clamped an indefinite curfew in the capital city along with a mobile internet ban in 10 assam districts including kamrup as part of sweeping measures to stem the rising tide of protests against the citizenship amendment bill in tripura assam rifles units were deployed earlier in the day to prevent a rerun of the violent protests in dhalai and north tripuradistricts on tuesdayread alsoagp leaders in delhi as assam burns over cab curfew in guwahatinew delhi on a day indefinite curfew had to be imposed in guwahati and internet services suspended in at least 10 districts of assam as protests breaking out against the passing of the citizenship amendment bill cab at least three ministers from the state were here in parliament on wednesdayparamilitary forces also did a flag march indibrugarh which along with guwahati witnessed the most strident protestsfollow live updates parts of assam under curfewguwahati was a city under siege all day with thousands of protesters out on the streets to join a long march to the state secretariat in defiance of the heavy police presence all around neither tear gas nor rubber bullets and water cannons could deter the protesters most of them studentsat some places young women were seen requesting the police to let them remove the barricades and reach dispur where the secretariat and assembly are located when that didnt work they spread out gamosas a piece of traditional assamese cloth with multiple uses on the road so that the cops couldnt come at themeven after the curfew took effect spirals of smoke rose into the night sky from still burning tyres a flaming police bus set ablaze by protesters and uprooted road dividers spoke of the rage within a fire brigade vehicle used to spray water at the advancing protesters was damaged too hoardings announcing welfare schemes were used to light a bonfire in front of the secretariat one group damaged a wooden ramp set up near a prominent hotel as part of preparations for the threeday summit between pm narendra modi and his japanese counterpart shinzo abe from december 15government employees at the secretariat joined in the protest the assam secretariat employees association later issued a statement extending support to the organisations spearheading the anticab agitationwith protesters descending on every road chief minister sarbananda sonowal was reportedly stranded for some time at the airport he was returning to the city from tezpur in central assama lot of antisocial elements have infiltrated the agitators guwahati police commissioner deepak kumar saidbesides kamrup metro mobile internet was suspended in lakhimpur dhemaji tinsukia dibrugarh charaideo sivasagar jorhat and golaghat additional chief secretary home and political department kumar sanjay krishna saidin dibrugarh several students had to be admitted to the assam medical college and hospital after being injured in a police lathicharge on protesters in chaulkhowanortheast frontier railway cancelled as many as 13 trains and rescheduled some others more than 100