Serial blasts by anti-talk ULFA (Independent) shook upper Assam today as the state was celebrating Republic Day amid tight security. 

Suspected militants of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) triggered four blasts within a span of 45 minutes in Assam’s Charaideo and Dibrugarh districts on Thursday morning. However, there was no casualty in the explosions as they were triggered in isolated places.

The police said the explosions were reported from Angera, Lengeribor and Bihubor in Charaideo and Dibrugarh town in Dibrugarh district. The bomb in Dibrugarh was planted near a drain, 500 meters away from the official R-Day function. It went off even while the celebration there was on.

In Angera, the explosion occurred near a petrol pump. The powerful blast left a deep crater at the site. The second blast was reported from Lengeribor on the Assam-Nagaland border while the blast at Bihubor was triggered near an office of the forest department.