Assam blasts: We had prior information, says BSF

The information was not specific and said the possible targets could be Guwahati or Dibrugarh and the HuJI operation, according to the input, was to be carried out in liaison with local groups like ULFA.

The information was communicated to all security agencies and consequently vigilance was intensified at all vulnerable places, including those along the border, Mishra said.

It was possible that the militants or the explosives used in the blast had entered much before the information was received, he said and the militants could have entered through the Maynmmar or Bangladesh border.

The focus of the security agencies had, however, shifted to the communal clashes in Darrang and Udalguri and this might have helped the militants to carry out their nefarious designs.

“Several battalions of the BSF were taken to control the communal clashes and some deployed in the poll-bound J&K and Chattisgarh,” he said.

Referring to the threat posed by Muslim fundamentalist groups and their nexus with home-grown militants, Mishra said the BSF has intensified the security machinery along the porous Indo-Bangla border to thwart influx from the neighbouring country in the wake of the blasts.