By KUNA
New Delhi : At least 18 people were injured in two separate explosions, suspected to have been triggered by a banned rebel group in Indias Northeastern state of Assam Saturday.
A powerful blast rocked Assams Tinsukia town injuring 16 people today, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported quoting a state police official.
The injured have been shifted to hospitals with multiple injuries, the news agency said.
In another low intensity explosion in Assams main city of Guwahati, two people were injured.
Police held the outlawed rebel group United Liberation Front of Asam (ULFA) responsible for the blasts.
ULFA is waging an insurgency since 1979 to create a “sovereign Assam ” carved out of India.
Most of its top leadership is reported to be based in neighbouring Bangladesh and operating from there. Leading US think tank Stratfor last year in a report — India: ULFA Abandons Peace Talks — had said that ULFA was keen to work with groups like Bangladesh-based Harkt ul Jihadi Islami (HuJI) in India’s Northeast and has begun to outsource terror operations.
HuJI leadership has recently confessed to Bangladesh authorities to have supplied grenades to Lashkar-e-Toiba group for terror attacks in India in the past few years.