Guwahati refinery blown up: ULFA

ULFA’s Paresh Baruah faction on Tuesday claimed to have blown up the Guwahati Refinery in Noonmati with a powerful blast that ravaged a portion of the refinery with devastating inferno. But the refinery authorities called it an incident of blast citing water tight security in and around the refinery.

Local residents in Noonmati came to hear defeaning sound at around 7-15 in the evening and saw a ravaging inferno spreading to the adjacent units rapidly. Fire tenders have been rushed to the spot and it took several hours to bring the situation under control. At around 7-15 in the evening ULFA’s publicity commandant Arunodoi Dohotia owned up the responsibility of the incident in the run up to the Republic Day.

Top ranked police and civil officials rushed to the spot but have categorically also contradicted the ULFA statement of massive attack where at least ten persons sustained injury. They have been rushed to the Refinery hospital.