Guwahati, May 26
At least seven persons were killed and 25 others injured as a blast triggered by Ulfa militants rocked Anthgaon areas in the heart of the city even as the police found a powerful bomb on the Up Brahmaputra Mail in Kokrajhar in western Assam today.

It was the seventh blast by Ulfa ultras so far this month. Militants detonated the bomb at a busy business centre at around 10.30 am today.

City SSP S.N. Singh said that “the high-intensity improvised explosive device (IED)” was planted on an autorickshaw parked on the SC Road near Marwari Maternity Hospital in the proximity of Anthgaon market. The injured were rushed to hospital and the area was cordoned off by the police. Enraged traders of the area came out on the road demanding security to their lives in view of repeated blasts in the area during this month.

The casualties in today’s blast would have been much higher and lives of schoolchildren would have been in extreme danger had the bomb exploded about 30 minutes earlier.