From Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI: One suspected anti-talk ULFA(I) cadre was arrested on Thursday for planting two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Guwahati ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s day-long visit to Assam.
Guwahati Police Commissioner Munna Prasad Gupta informed that one of the IEDs was recovered from Paltan Bazar area while the other was found near Seikh Brothers in Panbazar area of the city on Wednesday night. “The bomb squad took the IEDs away from the populous location and those were detonated safely later. We suspect it is the handiwork of ULFA(I),” he added.
The police team immediately launched an operation and arrested one suspected cadre of ULFA(I), Gupta said. To queries whether these bombs were planted targeting Modi’s visit to the state, Gupta said, “We cannot say immediately that the IEDs were planted targeting to the PM’s visit. We are investigating”.
Police had recovered another five IEDs from Panikhaiti area, near here on the same day. Modi during his visit to Assam has no programme in the city. He will reach the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport from Delhi and leave for Kokrajhar by a chopper. On the way back he will reach the airport here by a chopper and leave for the national capital in the plane, officials said. (with PTI)