NEW DELHI – Responsibility claimed for the five bomb blasts in India overRepublic Day.
Banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (Independent)(ULFA-I) on Sunday (January 26) took the responsibility of the fivelow-intensity blasts that shook Assam on the eve on Republic Day.
Earlier on Sunday, DGP Assam had also said that prima facie it seemed thatthe blasts were the handiwork of ULFA (I). No one got injured in the blasts.
Out of five explosions, three took place in Dibrugarh district and one eachin Tinsukia and Charaideo. The first blast took place at a shop in GrahamBazaar located near the National Highway NH 37.
The second blast took place near a Gurudwara on AT Road in Dibrugarh whileanother blast took place near Duliajan police station in Dibrugarh. Twoexplosions took place in Doom Dooma town of Tinsukia district and Teok Ghatunder Sonari town of Charaideo district.
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Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal condemned the incidents, saying itwas a ‘cowardly attempt to create terror on a sacred day’. “Stronglycondemn the bomb blasts in a few places of Assam.
This cowardly attempt to create terror on a sacred day only exhibits thefrustration of the terror groups after their total rejection by the people.Our Govt will take the sternest action to bring the culprits to book,” hetweeted.
It is to be noted that ULFA-I had called for a ‘general strike’ on Sunday,asking citizens to boycott the Republic Day celebrations.
