C-da,
Going by your earlier email's logic why should we believe the newsmedia that it was ULFA and not some Islamic jihadis who undertook the balst? And if you do believe so then why not also believe the newsmedia when it says that the school teacher was also a victim of ULFA's wrath?
Umesh
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Serial blasts rattle State
ULFA punches holes in Assam security shield
Our Bureau
With inputs from Guwahati, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sivasagar, Jorhat,
Lakhimpur, Tingkhong
Jan 22: Barely ten minutes after IGP (SB) Khagen Sarma claimed that
the situation in the State was normal, the outlawed ULFA today
triggered serial explosions throughout the State apparently
targeting security personnel and gas pipelines. Today's strikes by
the rebel group have proved beyond doubt that the Republic Day
security arrangement in the poll-bound State is not as tight as
claimed by the State police administration.
Around 5.55 this evening, suspected ULFA militants lobbed a powerful
grenade near Gauhati Commerce College in the city where security
personnel were on their routine checking. Police constable Damodar
Das, CRPF jawans Ajay Kumar Dro, BG Krishna, Dado Jadav and Purno
Boro were injured in the attack. Minutes later, a grenade was hurled
in front the Assam Police Reserve at AT Road in the city. One Rahim
Ali succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. Fifteen minutes
later, while a team of security personnel was in a search operation
in the police reserve area, militants detonated an IED, planted in a
requisitioned bus, injuring Panbazar OC Mahendra Rajkhowa and
constables Jogen Tisso and Rafiqul Hussain. DSP Mirinda Kadam Ingtpi
had a narrow escape.
Meanwhile, in the first instance of militant attack within Jorhat
district this year, suspected ULFA militants triggered a blast in
the precincts of the ASTC building here around 7.05 p.m, injuring a
person identified as Krishna Das. The casualty was minimum as there
was not many travellers within the ASTC complex at that hour.
In yet another strike, two gas pipelines -one at Chetiapathar under
Chabua PS and the other at Bokulia Chariali under Duliajan PS - were
blown up successively this evening. No casualty has been reported so
far.
A late night report said that yet another gas pipeline running
through Lengri TE under Tengakhat PS in Dibrugarh district was blown
up by militants around 9 p.m.
Last night, the ULFA blew up a power tower of NEEPCO at Bhoju in Sivasagar.
At Konwar Gaon near Lakhimpur, ULFA militants blew up a transformer
near the Madharam Gogoi LP School around 7.15 p.m. yesterday. Another
transformer was blown up at Hindugaon Tiniali just 30 minutes later.
Three security personnel - Ramen Kalita, Riten Hajong and Mukesh
Kumar - sustained injuries in the strike. Another gas pipeline was
blown up by militants at Mahmora Silgrant under Namrup PS in
Dibrugarh district last night.
The proscribed outfit broke the lull of about 100 days -the longest
so far -by blowing up an IOC pipeline at Dalgaon hours before Prime
Minister Dr Manmohan Singh was to arrive in the State. The ULFA had
designated the People's Consultative Group (PCG) to hold the first
round of talks with the Prime Minister on October 26 to prepare the
ground for direct talks between it and Government peace negotiators.
Since then the outfit had refrained from indulging in subversive
activities.
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