Guwahati: Four explosions rocked two towns in Assam on Independence Day, Wednesday.
A police spokesperson said there were two blasts each at Gauripur and Bongaigaon towns in western Assam in the morning. Alleged members of the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) detonated two bombs near the parade ground of a school in Gauripur in Dhubri district.
"Both were crude bombs. There were no people around that area when the explosions took place," police official S Rabha told IANS from Gauripur.
A PTI report said ULFA militants exploded two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) near the Gandhi Maidan parade ground in Bongaigaon minutes after state Education Minister Ripun Bora unfurled the national flag.
PTI said two persons were injured in Bongaigaon but IANS quoting a police official said there were no casualties.
Security officials defused an IED in Kerimeri Chowk of Darrang district’s headquarters Mongoldoi and found an arms dump in ULFA transit camp inside a forest at Singlu Sonari this morning.
There has been a wave of separatist attacks in Assam in the run-up to Independence Day in which 36 people were killed, 28 of them being Hindi-speaking migrant workers.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, in his Independence Day speech, appealed to the ULFA and other insurgent outfits to end violence and talk with the government.
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