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IED Recoverd in Nagaon

By Pankaj Sharma |

One Powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was recoverd on Saturday night in Raha. Police acting on a tip off recovered the IED from a bicycle which was kept under a bridge.

Nagaon  Superintend of Police Vivek Raj Singh said  that  the police received a tip off that a ladies bicycle was seen  abandoned under a bridge with a suspicious object, the police recated swiftly and recovered the IED and diffused late last night, he further said that the security apparatus has been tightened in the district, specially in the areas bordering karbianglong owing to the run up to the Independence Day and ongoing protests in  other parts of the state.

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