August 17, 2026 04:15 am (IST)
Assam Police recovers powerful IED from passenger train
Guwahati, Nov 24 (IBNS) : The Assam Police on Monday foiled a major terror attack ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to the state as they recovered powerful IED , which weighed seven kilograms, from a compartment of a passenger train in Kamrup district.
With inputs from the NIA and the intelligence sources, the Assam Police have recovered the powerful IED from a compartment of Up Alipurduar-Kamakhya Intercity Express at Kendukuna railway station in the Lower Assam district.
“Suspected militants had planted the IED in the passenger train targeting more than 1500 passengers,” a top police official said.
“The troops had launched operation in the train at Kendukuna railway station and recovered the bomb from a compartment,” the police official said.
Later, the Army bomb squad team had defused the IED.
On Nov 23, two people were killed and 27 others injured in a powerful explosion at Rajgarh area in Upper Assam’s Dibrugarh district.
The Assam Police had sounded high alert across Assam for probable terror attack in the state.
(Reporting by Hemanta Kumar Nath)
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