NEEPCO tower damaged in explosion

A NEEPCO owned power transmission tower damaged in Sivasagar district on Sunday when ULFA’S Paresh Baruah faction exploded a powerful bomb.

Three IEDs, weighing nearly a kg, were planted on the power transmission tower and one of them exploded in the morning. The other two IEDs were later defused by the army bomb squad. The tower transmits electricity from Assam Power Generation Corporation Limited's Lakwa Thermal Power Station at nearby Maibella.