Six more arrested in connection with Assam blasts

Six more persons have been apprehended by police in connection with the Assam blasts.

Six more persons, including a Bhutanese national, have been apprehended by police in connection with the October 30 serial blasts in Assam which claimed 84 lives.

The police have so far arrested 23 people for their alleged involvement in the blasts, suspected to have been carried out by ULFA and NDFB in association with Bangladesh- based fundamentalist organisations.

Bhutanese national Tenzing G Zangpo and self-styled home secretary of National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) Sabin Boro were picked from a rented house in Guwahati on Wednesday and arrested after interrogation.

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The two were remanded in 10 days of police custody by the Kamrup additional chief judicial magistrate.

The police also entered a NDFB designated camp in Baksa district and arrested two cadres R Serja and B Pwthai on Wednesday. They are being brought here today for further interrogation.

Police had gheraoed the designated camp since Monday night but could enter the camp only yesterday. The two NDFB cadres were arrested on the basis of a list of suspects sent by the special investigating team set up to probe the blasts.

A suspected ULFA cadre was nabbed from Jalukbari area last night in connection with the blasts and two M-20 pistols were recovered from him, police said.

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Another person, identified as Ganesh Basumatary, was taken into custody on the basis of statements by some of the arrested persons, police said.