Asom: Powerful car bomb explodes, no casualties

Guwahati, Feb 4: Suspected insurgents exploded a powerful car bomb right in front of the main police station here early this morning, but none was injured.

Police said for the first time in the history of the North East the ultras had resorted to car bomb.

The bomb was hidden inside a Maruti car and went off at 0330 hours, police added.

The vehicle was towed away by police from no parking zone yesterday, and as nobody turned up to claim it, police got it parked at the seized car parking area in Panbazar police station.

The explosion was so powerful that the car was completely ripped apart and window panes of some nearby buildings were smashed to smithereens, police stated.

Had the bomb exploded during the day time or in the evening, the casualty could have surpassed the hundred mark, police said.

With barely four days to go for the kick-off of the National Games, the blast had put a big question mark on its grand success.

UNI