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Powerful IED found in Guwahati, ULFA(I) ultra arrested

| | Jun 21, 2015, at 12:26 am
Guwahati, June 20 (IBNS): Ahead of Ambubasi festival in Kamakhya temple, security forces on Saturday recovered a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) from outskirts of Guwahati city in Assam.

Security forces also apprehended a hardcore militant belonging to ULFA(I) from Jharpara area near Boko in Kamrup district.

Guwahati city police commissioner Mukesh Agarwal said that ULFA(I) militants planted the IED and targeted the Ambubasi festival.

He said it was recovered from Khanamukh area near Jalukbari.

On the base of intelligence input, the police and the CRPF jointly launched an operation at Jharpara area under Boko police station and nabbed a hardcore militant of ULFA(I).

He was was identified as Deepak Rabha alias Sankar Rabha.

During interrogation, the nabbed militant revealed that ULFA(I) has planned to carry out major explosions in various areas in the state including Guwahati.

"We have already sounded alert across the state specially in upper Assam and lower Assam," Assam police ADGP (SB) Pallab Bhattacharya said.

(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
 

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