At least 14 people were injured, five of them critically, in a bomb blast triggered by suspected ULFA militants at a market place near Tezpur police station in Assam's Sonitpur district on Wednesday afternoon.
Police said the bomb strapped to a bicycle, kept between a computer and a mobile shop at Bargolla Chariali, about 100 m from Tezpur police station, exploded at around 2.45 pm.The injured included three women and a 12-year-old boy.
Among the five critically injured, two of them -- a father and a son -- have been shifted to Guwahati Medical College Hospital, while the others were taken to Tezpur Civil Hospital.
A blast has occurred in this relatively militancy-free district after a gap of nearly three years. The last blast was triggered in 2005 near Ganesh Mandir here in which an army official was killed and three persons were injured.
27 February 2008
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