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Blast derails goods train in Assam

By Sushanta Talukdar

GUWAHATI, JUNE 19. Eight bogies of a goods train derailed and its driver was injured when suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militants triggered a blast on the track at Ultapur between Digboi and Tinsukia railway stations in upper Assam's Tinsukia district around 9.30 p.m. The train was carrying coal from Ledo.

This was the second blast in the district today. Earlier in the day, a powerful blast took place in the heart of Tinsukia town injuring 13 persons, five of them critically. On June 9, suspected ULFA militants lobbed a grenade inside a cinema in the heart of the town killing one person and injuring 22. On June 17, two motorcycle-borne youths hurled a grenade at a hardware shop in Doomdooma town of the district.

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