<p>A police spokesperson said the bomb was recovered from one of the coaches of the Kamakhya-Puri Express near the Pancharatna station in western Goalpara district early Friday. <br /><br />The train was bound for Puri in Orissa from Assam's main city of Guwahati. <br /><br />"We had some information that a bomb was being carried in the train and hence we conducted a massive search operation after stopping the train at Pancharatna station and recovered a powerful improvised explosive device concealed in a sack," Goalpara district police chief Luis Aind told IANS. <br /><br />Bomb experts defused the explosive. <br /><br />Police picked up one person suspected to have been carrying the bomb. <br /><br />"Investigations are on to find if the person we picked was actually carrying the bomb or not," the official said. <br /><br />On July 11, at least 70 people were injured, several of them seriously, when four coaches of the Kamakhya-Puri Express were derailed and four others capsized due to a powerful explosion at Dhatkuchi between Rangiya and Goghrapar railway stations in Assam in western Assam. <br /><br />Militants in Assam have stepped up efforts to create terror ahead of Independence Day even as 12 rebel groups have called for a boycott and a 17-hour general strike Aug 15. <br /><br />Militant groups in the northeast have for years boycotted national events to protest New Delhi's rule over the region. <br /><br />Security forces have been put on maximum alert across the region to thwart possible rebel strikes, officials said. <br /><br />The run-up to the events has always been violent, with rebels striking vital installations like crude oil pipelines, trains, roads and rail bridges besides targeting security personnel.</p>
<p>A police spokesperson said the bomb was recovered from one of the coaches of the Kamakhya-Puri Express near the Pancharatna station in western Goalpara district early Friday. <br /><br />The train was bound for Puri in Orissa from Assam's main city of Guwahati. <br /><br />"We had some information that a bomb was being carried in the train and hence we conducted a massive search operation after stopping the train at Pancharatna station and recovered a powerful improvised explosive device concealed in a sack," Goalpara district police chief Luis Aind told IANS. <br /><br />Bomb experts defused the explosive. <br /><br />Police picked up one person suspected to have been carrying the bomb. <br /><br />"Investigations are on to find if the person we picked was actually carrying the bomb or not," the official said. <br /><br />On July 11, at least 70 people were injured, several of them seriously, when four coaches of the Kamakhya-Puri Express were derailed and four others capsized due to a powerful explosion at Dhatkuchi between Rangiya and Goghrapar railway stations in Assam in western Assam. <br /><br />Militants in Assam have stepped up efforts to create terror ahead of Independence Day even as 12 rebel groups have called for a boycott and a 17-hour general strike Aug 15. <br /><br />Militant groups in the northeast have for years boycotted national events to protest New Delhi's rule over the region. <br /><br />Security forces have been put on maximum alert across the region to thwart possible rebel strikes, officials said. <br /><br />The run-up to the events has always been violent, with rebels striking vital installations like crude oil pipelines, trains, roads and rail bridges besides targeting security personnel.</p>