4 soldiers injured in Ulfa blast OUR CORRESPONDENT
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070426/asp/northeast/story_7699373.asp *Dibrugarh, April 25:* Four soldiers were injured in an IED explosion at Medo under Chaukham police station in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh around 5.30 pm today. Army sources said Ulfa militants triggered an explosion when a two-vehicle convoy of the army's 581 light regiment (artillery) were on a routine patrol in the area, adjoining Manabhum forest, where a major flush-out operation against Ulfa is on for the past several months. The army had gunned down eight Ulfa militants in the area recently. Today's strike was apparently to avenge the killings. The blast threw the heavy-duty army truck carrying soldiers several feet into the air. The injured jawans were taken to the nearby Namsai hospital. The soldiers are likely to be airlifted to an army hospital at Dinjan. A caller, who identified himself as the self-styled commander of the Charlie company of the Ulfa's 28 battalion, Jiten Dutta, alias Moon Bora, claimed that 12 soldiers were killed in the blast and the subsequent firing. Quake prediction There is a possibility of a massive earthquake striking the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam in the near future, a scientist of the Geological Survey of India has said, reports PTI. K. Mazumdar, a senior scientist of the GSI currently heading a study team on earthquake alerts, today said a "quake with a magnitude of more than 7 on the Richter Scale could hit the area on the foothills of Bhutan in Assam's Kokrajhar district and extend north up to Kamrup district". Mazumdar said his team of GSI scientists had been conducting studies since 2005, when there were the first indications of such a tremor. 4 soldiers injured in Ulfa blast OUR CORRESPONDENT http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070426/asp/northeast/story_7699373.asp *Dibrugarh, April 25:* Four soldiers were injured in an IED explosion at Medo under Chaukham police station in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh around 5.30 pm today. Army sources said Ulfa militants triggered an explosion when a two-vehicle convoy of the army's 581 light regiment (artillery) were on a routine patrol in the area, adjoining Manabhum forest, where a major flush-out operation against Ulfa is on for the past several months. The army had gunned down eight Ulfa militants in the area recently. Today's strike was apparently to avenge the killings. The blast threw the heavy-duty army truck carrying soldiers several feet into the air. The injured jawans were taken to the nearby Namsai hospital. The soldiers are likely to be airlifted to an army hospital at Dinjan. A caller, who identified himself as the self-styled commander of the Charlie company of the Ulfa's 28 battalion, Jiten Dutta, alias Moon Bora, claimed that 12 soldiers were killed in the blast and the subsequent firing. Quake prediction There is a possibility of a massive earthquake striking the Indo-Bhutan border in Assam in the near future, a scientist of the Geological Survey of India has said, reports PTI. K. Mazumdar, a senior scientist of the GSI currently heading a study team on earthquake alerts, today said a "quake with a magnitude of more than 7 on the Richter Scale could hit the area on the foothills of Bhutan in Assam's Kokrajhar district and extend north up to Kamrup district". Mazumdar said his team of GSI scientists had been conducting studies since 2005, when there were the first indications of such a tremor. [image: Top]<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070426/asp/northeast/story_7699373.asp#top> [image: Top]<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070426/asp/northeast/story_7699373.asp#top>
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