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Five persons were killed and 20 others injured, some of them seriously, in two separate attacks on Durga puja pandals by militants in lower Assam’s Bongaigaon district on Sunday night, official sources said on Monday.
Extremists hurled hand grenades at two puja pandals in Bongaigaon town and nearby Satipur on Sunday night, killing four persons including a woman, sources said.
The three victims in Bongaigaon were identified as Kalyanjit Bisnot, 30, Subhash Saha, 34 and Bina Das 30, while the victim in Satipur was Ganesh Chandra Barman, 26. Ten of the injured were admitted to a local hospital and four had been shifted to the GMC hospital here.
The identity of the extremists had not yet been ascertained as the proscribed Ulfa and NDFB did not target religious places, the sources said, adding Islamic ultras supported by agencies from across the border were active in that area.
Special branch IGP Khagen Sarmah
said there were intelligence reports about a possible attack by ultras
in puja pandals in Bongaigaon district and the administration there had
been alerted. Last year too during the Durga puja, militants had attacked
a puja pandal in Dhubri district.
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