Eight ULFA cadres were arrested on Friday night and two powerful improvised explosive devices recovered from them following an encounter in Tinsukia district. Acting on a tip-off about the presence of a group of ULFA cadres to carry out subversive activities in the run-up to the Independence Day, the police launched a search operation in Borburi area on Friday evening and an encounter followed in which two cadre were nabbed.

Five more cadre of the ULFA were arrested following their interrogation and two powerful IEDs recovered from an abandoned cremation ground, about 500 metres away from the parade ground where the district administration was due to hold the Independence Day parade.
The bombs have been defused and search operations are on to arrest the militants who fled away during the encounter.