| Wednesday, January 24, 2007 |
| One killed, 12 hurt as violence unabated in Assam |
The long-drawn-out violence in Assam shows no signs of abating.
As each day passes, the situation seems to be getting more dreadful, with the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) stepping up its attacks.
On Tuesday, a panchayat member belonging to the Congress party was killed and at least 12 people were injured, some seriously, in separate incidents of ULFA-sponsored bomb blasts.
The Assam police said armed ULFA militants raided the house of Chandra Chutia, president of the Congress-controlled Sachani Gaon gram panchayat at Tarani Pathar area in Dibrugarh district and shot him dead.
Six people were injured when a bomb exploded among the Saraswati Puja revellers in the busy Adabari bus terminus area in Guwahati.
Tension prevailed in the Bongaigaon town as a powerful bomb went off near the Superintendent of Police’s office at Paglasthan area. Five persons were seriously injured in the blast. Police said the casualty figure could go up.
Another bomb exploded at the Boro fish market area in Bongaigaon, but there was no casualty.
In another incident, a 16-year old girl was injured when she was hit by bullet splinters from the ULFA’s grenade attack in Kamalpur area in Kamrup district.
The Assam police also recovered and defused a powerful improvised explosive devise (IED) kept in an isolated area near the high-security Guwahati Refinery area complex in Noonmati area of Guwahati.
In Lakhimpur district, the police dug up an IED, fitted with TNT and a time device, from a paddy field and defused it.Labels: Politics |
| posted by a correspondent @ 10:37 AM |
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