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| India strengthens security along Bangladesh border |
| 2006-11-07 |
| (KUNA) -- India Monday beefed up security along its boundary with Bangladesh suspecting the involvement of foreign-based guerrillas in the twin blasts in the country's Northeastern state of Assam Sunday that killed 14 people, while the security forces killed a bomber linked to the explosions. Official sources told reporters in Delhi Monday, "We know that the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was behind the bomb blasts in Guwahati. We are trying to find out if they have been backed by guerrillas in neighbouring Bangladesh." News agency Indo-Asian News Service reported that the security forces killed one of the bombers involved in Sunday night's blasts, near Guwahati in Assam. Two explosions rocked Guwahati Sunday evening. Fourteen people were killed and 38 wounded in the blasts. The ULFA is yet to claim responsibility for the attacks. "A composite team of the Indian Home Ministry is arriving in Guwahati to take stock of the situation and work out strategies," Assam governor Lt. Gen (Retd) Ajai Singh told reporters today, the news agency reported. "This is nothing but an act of desperation with the ULFA killing innocent civilians. We are stepping up security and take all possible steps to thwart possible rebel attacks," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Guwahati today. Meanwhile, a dawn-to-dusk general strike Monday to protest the bombings called by civil society groups affected life in Guwahati today, the news agency said. |
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