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Guwahati blast kills couple, child

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Explosive planted in the autorickshaw stand of railway station

— Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar

MANGLED REMAINS: Security personnel inspect the bomb blast site outside the Guwahati railway station on Thursday. Three persons, including a six-year-old girl, were killed. Police said they suspected the United Liberation Front of Asom behind the incident. The bomb was concealed in a sack and kept in a rickshaw.

Guwahati: A man and wife and their two-and-a-half year old boy were killed and nine others injured when suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) triggered a blast at the autorickshaw stand of the Guwahati railway station on Thursday.

The blast occurred around 5:25 p.m. at the autorickshaw stand near the main entrance of the railway station in which a rickshaw puller Binay Chouhan(40) and his minor son Uday Chouhan died on the spot.

His wife Reeta Chouhan died of injuries at the Mahendra Mohan Choudhury hospital where the injured were rushed. Police suspected that the blast was caused by a programmed time device planted on the rickshaw. City Senior Superintendent of Police, Nitul Gogoi, told The Hindu that the deceased were sitting on a pavement near the rickshaw when the blast occurred.

Direct talks

Earlier, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi claimed that the ULFA has joined hands with Jehadi elements to create chaos, and destruction. Spelling out the State government's stand on peace talk with the ULFA, he said that government was for direct talks with ULFA chief Paresh Barua and other top leaders and not with any representative authorised by the outfit.

National Games

Mr Gogoi also said that the National Games would be held on time despite the ULFA's call to sportspersons to boycott the event and its threat to disrupt it.

He said that the state government would provide full security to every participant of the National Games.

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