New Delhi: Authorities have new leads in the two blasts in Nalbari in lower Assam that left seven people dead and over 30 injured. The men who allegedly carried out the attack were nine ULFA caders who came in from Myanmar and Bangladesh.
The attacks came weeks after two of ULFA's top leaders, one of whom is from Nalbari are arrested. and in signature ULFA style, the terrorists turned an innocous bicycle into a bomb filling its rods with high grade explosives. The deadly bombs went off within minutes of each other near the police station.
An eyewitness said, "I went to the spot of the first blast, when there was a second blast."
A woman said, "My father has a shop outside the police station where the first blast took place."
Only 24 hours earlier, the police had released sketches of the nine men who are highly trained ULFA terrorists and have sneaked in from Bangladesh and Myanmar. The chief minister refused to call this an intelligence failure.
Assam CM, Tarun Gogoi said, "This is no intelligence failure. ULFA is trying to shift its base. They are trying to shift to China."
Alleged support to the ULFA from China is coming in the form of supply of small arms as well. This was admitted to by the Union Home Secretary. However, the 709 battalion of the ULFA denied the outift had any role in Sunday's attacks.
As 32 people fight for their lives inside the hospital, this attack seems to be a desperate bid by the ULFA to re-assert its presence in Assam.
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