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Four killed in militant strikes in Assam
Diphu (Assam), Dec 2 (PTI) Four persons were Tuesday killed and over 35 injured in violence unleashed by a militant group which is suspected to have triggered a blast in a passenger train at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam and attacked Hindi-speaking people.
The bomb, planted at the entrance of a general
compartment of the Tinsukia-Lumding passenger train, exploded
at 8:00 am IST killing two and injuring 35 others, District
Superintendent of Police (DSP) A K Sarma told PTI.
The bomb, set off by a timer device, went off as the
train was approaching Diphu railway station.
A few hours after the blast, Karbi Longri National
Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants, armed with automatic
weapons, raided the Dalamara area of the hill district and
gunned down a Hindi-speaking couple -- Raju Sahu and his wife
-- besides injuring their child before escaping, police said.
Two unexploded bombs were also found at the District
Mandal Congress office and at a railway passenger waiting room
at Dokmoka and later defused by the bomb disposal squad.
Meanwhile, panic spread in the busy Ganeshguri area
near the Dispur capital complex here following reports of a
bomb being planted in a Ganesh temple.
The main entrance was sealed as the police made a
search, but it turned out to be a hoax.
Security across the state has been tightened following
Tuesday's blast which comes after the deadly serial explosions
in the state on October 30.
A spokesman of the North East Frontier Railway (NEFR)
said train movement in the area has not been affected by the
blast.
Train services, which were disrupted for a few hours
after the explosion, resumed at 10.25 am IST, the spokesman
said.
The KLNLF has called the economic blockade of railway
tracks and National Highways 37 and 39 Tuesday in the district
demanding responses from political parties to their 10-point
demands, which include among others, exclusion of Karbi
Anglong land from 'Dimaraji' as demanded by another militant
outfit, Dima Halam Daogah (DHD), in neighbouring N C Hills.
PTI
The bomb, planted at the entrance of a general
compartment of the Tinsukia-Lumding passenger train, exploded
at 8:00 am IST killing two and injuring 35 others, District
Superintendent of Police (DSP) A K Sarma told PTI.
The bomb, set off by a timer device, went off as the
train was approaching Diphu railway station.
A few hours after the blast, Karbi Longri National
Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants, armed with automatic
weapons, raided the Dalamara area of the hill district and
gunned down a Hindi-speaking couple -- Raju Sahu and his wife
-- besides injuring their child before escaping, police said.
Two unexploded bombs were also found at the District
Mandal Congress office and at a railway passenger waiting room
at Dokmoka and later defused by the bomb disposal squad.
Meanwhile, panic spread in the busy Ganeshguri area
near the Dispur capital complex here following reports of a
bomb being planted in a Ganesh temple.
The main entrance was sealed as the police made a
search, but it turned out to be a hoax.
Security across the state has been tightened following
Tuesday's blast which comes after the deadly serial explosions
in the state on October 30.
A spokesman of the North East Frontier Railway (NEFR)
said train movement in the area has not been affected by the
blast.
Train services, which were disrupted for a few hours
after the explosion, resumed at 10.25 am IST, the spokesman
said.
The KLNLF has called the economic blockade of railway
tracks and National Highways 37 and 39 Tuesday in the district
demanding responses from political parties to their 10-point
demands, which include among others, exclusion of Karbi
Anglong land from 'Dimaraji' as demanded by another militant
outfit, Dima Halam Daogah (DHD), in neighbouring N C Hills.
PTI
