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CRPF team ambushed, oil pipeline hit during ULFA blockade

A Central Reserve Police Force constable and a civilian driver were killed and seven CRPF personnel were seriously injured, and an oil pipeline damaged extensively as the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom-sponsored 18-hour road-cum-oil blockade ended in Assam today.

According to official reports, Oil India Limited officials have been working round-the-clock to repair the pipeline and restore pumping of crude oil to Guwahati, Bongaigaon and Barauni refineries.

The pipeline was damaged at three points in explosions triggered by members of the banned organisation yesterday.

Two people, including a CRPF onstable, were killed and seven CRPF personnel were seriously injured in an explosion triggered by militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom near Teok police station of Jorhat district at midnight. The injured have been shifted to Jorhat civil hospital.

The report said the militants exploded the time bomb, placed near the police station when the truck drove up. The militants also fired at the CRPF personnel, who retaliated. They later attacked a CRPF camp and the police station.

Meanwhile, an official report said security forces yesterday nabbed a hardcore ULFA militant, Ananda Gogoi, and his wife Janaki Baruah, also an activist, in Barbil, Dibrugarh district.

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