By IANS
Guwahati : At least one person was killed and more than 20 people wounded in a string of explosions in Assam Sunday, including two in the state’s main city of Guwahati, officials said.
A police spokesman said the first was a car bomb explosion in the heart of Tinsukia town, about 550 km east of here.
“The time device was brought in a Maruti car and before the explosion the driver jumped off and fled on a motorbike of an accomplice who was following him,” Tinsukia police chief Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan told IANS by telephone.
Twelve people, most of them evening shoppers and vendors, were injured.
“Four of the 12 injured were stated to be critical and were admitted to hospitals,” the police official said.
There were two explosions in the heart of Guwahati, killing one person and wounding at least eight.
“The two blasts took place near a crowded marketplace adjacent to a Muslim graveyard in which one person was killed and some eight others injured,” a senior police official said requesting not to be named.
The injured were shifted to the Guwahati Medical College hospital with multiple injuries.
Police blamed all the three blasts on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), fighting for an independent homeland since 1979.
The ULFA observes Nov 27 as Black Day – on this day in 1990 New Delhi launched the first-ever military offensive codenamed ‘Operation Bajrang’ against the outfit after it was declared unlawful.