Source: Hueiyen News Service
Guwahati, July 30 2010:
The ULFA is beginning to show its terror activities in the run up to the Independence Day celebration.
On Friday, five CRPF personnel were killed and injured over 35 others in a blast in Assam triggered by the banned United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa).
According to official sources, the Assam based militants blew off a vehicle belonging to the CRPF at a place called Solmari of Goalpara district in lower Assam.
Solmari is 200 kms west of Guwahati.
Today's incident occurred in the morning.
Reports said that security forces personnel were returning to their base camp in the vehicle after an anti-insurgency routine exercise.
Reports further said that the blast happened inside a reserve forest.
A powerful IED (Improvised Explosive Device) went off when a bus, carrying around 40 CRPF personnel, was passing by, they said.
Inspector General of Assam Police Khagen Sarma said, "The militants had planted a powerful IED on the road.
It was triggered perhaps through remote control device".
"We learnt that a three-member gang of the Ulfa was involved in the incident," the police officer added.
Reports said that four CRPF personnel died on the spot while one succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.
The deceased have been identified as P Sen, Ranbir Singh, Mongol Nayak, D Sanjay and Srinivas.
At least 30 others were injured in the attack.
The condition of four to five of them was critical.
They were rushed to Guwahati for better medical treatment while rest of the injured jawans admitted to a Government hospital in Goalpara.
Security personnel cordoned off the entire area and launched a massive search operation.
It can be noted that the Friday's incident was the second major attack by the militants on security personnel in the state in less than a week.
On July 26, the anti-talks faction of National Democratic Front of Bodoland had gunned down four SSB jawans in a similar attack in Chirang district of Assam.
Meanwhile, owning responsibility for the attack, the Ulfa has asked the Government to discharge its duties responsibly.
A spokesman of the ULFA said over phone to the media, "Our long silence shouldn't be construed as our weakness.
Things will be more volatile if the government constantly fails to discharge its duties responsibly".