Oil installations hit by ULFA blasts

Guwahati, June 10 (UNI) Oil operations were severely hit in a series of ULFA-triggered explosions that rocked Asom last night.

In two landmine blasts near a tea garden in Naharkatia in Dibrugarh district, state-owned Assam Gas Company Limited's two pipelines were damaged.

The fire was brought under control this morning. Train movement along the NF Railway track near the site, suspended following the blast, were resumed in the wee hours today.

In separate explosions, crude oil supply to Digboi Refinery, the world's oldest refinery, and gas supply to Namrup Thermal Power Plant were also hit.

However, no casualty had been reported in the blasts.

The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), in specific attacks, exploded 11 bombs in which five people were killed and 24 injured, seven of them seriously, in the last 48 hours, official sources said today.

Five persons, mostly vegetable vendors, were killed and 21 others injured, seven of them seriously, in a blast last evening in a busy market area of Guwahati.

Three persons were injured in a powerful blast at Doomdooma last evening when a bomb exploded in a house of one Milan Deori.

Another bomb exploded near Panchali Garmura Bridge on Digboi-Duliajan road.

A series of four blasts, two of them in Dhubri district and one each in Nowgaon and Mangaldoi, rocked the state.

Security has been tightened following the attacks, fearing more offensives by the outfit.

Meanwhile, a bomb was recovered near the Superintendent of Police's office here today.

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