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4 killed as militants step up violence

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Workers clearing the track after a goods train derailed, when suspected NDFB militants blasted a portion of the railway track, in Kokrajhar district, Guwahati on Saturday.

GUWAHATI June 21. After a brief lull, the ULFA and the Bodo militant outfit, NDFB, carried out a number of attacks in upper and lower Assam on Friday night, killing four persons.

A bomb detonated around 9 a.m. by the NDFB militants snapped the rail link between Assam and the rest of the country. Nine wagons of a cement-laden goods train were derailed in the blast between Fakiragram and Kokrajhar stations. It is suspected that the militants' target was a passenger train which had passed that area 15 minutes earlier. Railway officials said here today that the line restoration work had started but might take another 48 hours to restore the link. In another incident, militants fired at an armed police post at nearby Sesapani and the exchange of fire continued for 20 minutes. None was injured.

The ULFA hijacked an Oil India Ltd. staff bus at Nagajan in Tinsukia on Friday night and drove it to a CISF camp. As a havildar opened the gate, he was shot dead. Another jawan was injured and died later. In the retaliatory fire by the CISF jawans, one militant was killed, while the others escaped. Earlier, they threw a rocket-propelled grenade on an oil tanker which was empty.Later, at Panbari in Dhubri the ULFA attacked a CRPF post. One militant was killed while a civilian driver and two CRPF jawans were injured. Senior civil and police officials met here this afternoon and reviewed the security scenario in view of the stepped up activities of the militants.

Rocket attacks on security forces

PTI reports from Agartala:

For the first time in Tripura, militants used rockets to attack security forces even as they killed four persons in separate incidents since last night, police said today.

Two groups of the banned All-Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) fired rockets at a CRPF camp in Jirania and the battalion headquarters of Tripura State Rifles in the same area last night, the police said.

The attacks appeared to be planned as the rockets were fired at the same time. No casualty was reported in the rocket attack.

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