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2 FCI staff injured in Guwahati blast

Sushanta Talukdar

GUWAHATI: Two employees of the Food Corporation of India were injured when a bomb, suspected to have been planted by the United Liberation Front of Asom, went off at its depot at Noonmati here.

Police said the bomb was kept concealed in a bicycle at the two-wheeler parking lot. Several motorbikes and bicycles caught fire in the impact of the blast, which occurred around 11:45 a.m.FCI official Purno Sharma and another employee Ratneswar Rabha were injured.

Meanwhile, the security forces are yet to trace the whereabouts of abducted FCI Executive Director P.C. Ram.

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