Guwahati: Three people, including two securitymen and and a civilian, were injured in Assam's Tinsukia district when ULFA militants lobbed a hand grenade on a CRPF vehicle on Sunday.
At Chabbua, in the same district, the militants destroyed an electrical transformer by exploding a bomb.
In another incident, the railway track was blown off near Sibsagar minutes after the Rajdhani Express passed through the area on Sunday morning.
Police said that the remote-controlled bomb exploded between Bhojo and Sibsagar stations after the Dibrugarh-Howrah Kamrup Express and Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Express passed through the area.
There was no casualty though railway tracks have been extensively damaged and rail traffic has come to a halt with several trains controlled at various places.
An oil pipeline was also blown up last midnight at Kothaloni under Tengakhat police station in Dibrugarh district.
Meanwhile, ULFA commander in chief Paresh Baruah in an e-mail to the loca media has denied involvement in the Machkhowa blast on Friday which injured five people but owned responsibility for the attack on OIL pipelines in upper Assam.
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