Bombs defused, catastrophe averted

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August 17, 1999

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Title: Bombs defused, catastrophe averted
Author: UNI
Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: August 17, 1999 

Prompt action by the army and railway staff led to the timely defusion of two
powerful bombs kept by suspected National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants on a
broad gauge rail bridge west of Kaithalkuchi railway station in Nalbari district of
Assam last night. 

Official sources today said a party of gangmen noticed suspicious objects attached to
the bridge at about 2310 hours yesterday, whereupon they informed the police. 

Immediately, the area was cordoned off by security forces and a bomb disposal team of
21 Mountain Division from Rangiya was rushed to the place. The team defused two
plastic jerrycans filled with 12 kilograms each of ammonal high power explosives and
fitted with electronic detonators, the sources added.

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