India: Assam Police Foils Major Explosion: Powerful IED Recovers From Passenger Train

Guwahati, November 24: Assam police on Monday foiled a major explosion ahead of PM Narendra Modi's viist to the state recovering a powerful IED weighing seven kilograms from a compartment of a passenger train in Kamrup district.


Input from NIA and intelligence, Assam police had recovered the powerful IED from a compartment of Up Alipurduar-Kamakhya Intercity Express at Kendukuna railway station in the Lower Assam district.

“Suspected militants had planted the IED in the passenger train targeting more than 1500 passengers,” a top police official said.

“The troops had launched operation in the train at Kendukuna railway station and recovered the bomb from a compartment,” the police official said.

Later Army bomb squad team had defused the IED.

On November 23, two people were killed and 27 others injured in a powerful explosion at Rajgarh area in Upper Assam's Dibrugarh district.

Assam police had sounded high alert across the state for probable terror attack.