One dead, 3 hurt in N Bengal explosion

(It is interesting to note - that N.Bengal acts as one of the corridors for jihadi infiltrators from Bangladesh into India & that the blast reported below was engineered keeping the explosives on a bicycle - some experts believe this was a dry run prior to the Jaipur blasts where the some of the explosives were also tied to a simple bicyle.)

13 May 2008, 0559 hrs IST,Pinak Priya Bhattacharya,TNN
JALPAIGURI: A man was killed and three others were injured in a blast at Barovisha in Jalpaiguri district on Monday. Gobind Sharma (28), a truck driver, was killed while Sudam Burman, Ranjit Saha and Suresh Sha were injured. Suresh is the owner of the truck that Gobind was driving. Police have claimed that the goons used an improvised explosive device of low intensity that went off around 10.20 am near the MVI office by the NH-31 in Barovisha, located along the Assam-Bengal border. The bomb was planted in a cycle lying in front of the office. They had left the truck and entered the MVI office to get permission to enter Assam. The bomb exploded when Suresh and Gobind came out of the MVI office with their permit. All the injured have been hospitalised. Earlier, on February 20, a bomb planted in a cycle exploded in front of the commercial tax office, killing one and injuring four. This time, too, goons used the same method to carry out the blast. This particular stretch of Barovisha remains busy throughout the day as vehicles keep moving to and from Assam and every single vehicle has to stop at the Barovisha checkpost for permission to enter Assam or Bengal. The area also houses a number of offices. During the February blast, it was suspected that the Cobra Commandos, a tribal insurgent outfit of Assam, was behind the blast. But police could not establish any link. So, this time, police have not named any specific outfit as their suspect. In October 2006, too, two serial blasts had rocked Barovisha, which has always had been a disturbed area. The place is used as a safe passage by both United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) militants to go to their camps in the hills of Bhutan. Police have not yet named any specific outfit as their suspect. IGP, North Bengal, KL Tamta has gone to the spot for inspection. A team of experts will be coming from Kolkata to examine the type of explosive used in the blast.
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