New Delhi: The violence in Assam shows not signs of letting up.
In fact, with each passing day, the situation seems to be getting grimmer with the banned United Liberation Front of Assam stepping up its attacks.
On Tuesday, at least 12 people were reported injured, some seriously, in separate incidents of ULFA-sponsored bomb blasts.
Six of the 12 people were injured when a bomb exploded among the Saraswati puja revellers in the busy Adabari bus terminus area in the state capital Guwahati.
All of them were rushed to the Guwahati medical college.
News agency PTI reports that in Bongaigaon town, tension prevailed as a powerful bomb went off near the Superintendent of Police's office at Paglasthan area.
Five persons were seriously injured and police feared casualty figure could go up.
Early in the day, another bomb exploded at the Boro fish market area in Bongaigaon but there was no casualty. In a separate incident, a 16-year old girl was injured when she was hit by bullet splinters after ULFA’s grenade attack in Kamalpur area in Kamrup district.
Police also recovered and defused a powerful IED kept in an isolated area near the high-security Guwahati Refinery area complex in Noonmati area of the city.
In Lakhimpur district, the police unearthed from a paddy field an IED fitted with TNT and a time device, and defused it.
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