Guwahati, Jun 29 (DNS) At least six people were killed and 75 injured when ULFA rebels detonated a powerful bomb at a Kumarikata weekly market, adjacent to the Indo-Bhutan boundary this afternoon.
Police said the ULFA engineered the blast, the second in three days after a faction of the outfit offered ceasefire and was ready to talk with the government.
Today's bombing that occurred at around 1340 hrs in a crowded weekly market killed four people on the spot. The other two died on way to Guwahati Medical College.
About 75 people in cluding two Assam police constables were injured in the blast.
Police recovered one unexploded bomb from the site.
Sources close to the ULFA said the attack was the handiwork of ULFA's 709 battalion and chose the Baska district as Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had visited the district on the previous day and announced that more units of the outift were for ceasefire agreement.
On Friday the proscribed outfit triggered a bomb at Nagaon injuring four.
The explosives were strapped to a bicycle at the weekly market that sells pigs, goats, vegetables and clothes at Kumarikata in western Assam, near Bhutan border.
The area, falling under the Bodoland Territorial Autonomous Districts (BTAD), is a bastion of Bodo militants.
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