Date:23/01/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/01/23/stories/2008012355931200.htm

National

8 injured in Assam blasts

Special Correspondent

Guwahati: Eight people were injured, two seriously, in two bomb blasts suspected to have been triggered by suspected militants at Kokrajhar district and here on Tuesday.

Official sources said the eight were injured near Srirampur Check Gate along the Assam-West Bengal border in Kokrajhar district when suspected militants of the All Adivasi National Liberation Army triggered an improvised explosive device around 11:30 a.m. Suspected ULFA militants triggered a grenade blast in the Bamunimaidan locality here around 7:30 p.m.

The blast occurred amidst heightened security measures in view of the Republic Day boycott call by the ULFA and three other militant outfits .