Five people were killed and over 50 injured in three blasts set off by insurgent outfit ULFA here today hours before Union Home Minister P Chidambaram's visit to review law and order situation in the state rocked by deadly blasts that left 88 dead two months ago.
Three people were killed and 35 injured, including four women, when a bomb planted in front of a closed sweet shop exploded near upmarket Bhangagarh flyover on the busy Guwahati-Shillong road at around 5:45 pm.
Two persons died on way to hospital while another succumbed to his injuries at the Guwahati Medical College Hospital, DGP G M Srivastava said.
Two of the dead were identified as Amal Das and Kahil Sheikh.
A bomb kept in a bicycle exploded at a market in the Bhootnath area, the route which Chidambaram was to take on his way from the airport, under Baralumukh police station around 5.30 pm in which two persons were killed and 12 others injured, official sources said.
An Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) kept in a Gauhati Municipal Corporation (GMC) dustbin went off at around 3.30 pm injuring three persons in Birubari Tiniali area.
The blasts came a day ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's arrival here tomorrow enroute Shillong to inaugurate the Indian Science Congress there on January three.
Chidmabaram arrived at the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi international airport on a two-day visit to the state to review Assam's law and order situation and attend a meeting of the Unified Command headed by Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.
