Click to play videoAgartala: Preliminary investigations into the serial blasts in Agartala on Wednesday night suggest the use of ammonium nitrate and kerosene.
Security agencies also say that they suspect the blasts may have been triggered to avenge the killing of seven alleged Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI) cadres in Assam.
People of Tripura have learnt to live with violence but such scenes have never been seen in the capital city Agartala even during the height of tribal insurgency.
While Tripura has a history of ethnic tribal insurgency, explosives have rarely been used in crowded places and urban markets both the ethnic insurgent groups, the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) and the All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF), has mostly used improvised explosive devices (IEDs) against security forces or killed Bengali settlers with indiscriminate firing.
Wednesday evening's serial bomb blasts have put the state security machinery in a tizzy and the figure of suspicion has been pointed across the barbed wires in Bangladesh which shares a porous border with the north-eastern state.
Intelligence sources claim that recently new ATTF cadres were trained in Moximghat in Chittagong by the Bangladeshi military intelligence.
It was revealed during the interrogation of a recently arrested Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) leader by the West Bengal intelligence, who was trained in the same camp.
The cadres have been sent to deliver explosives to local networks of HuJI in Tripura, Assam and North Bengal.
They gathered at the Akhora station in Bangladesh right on the border with Tripura before infiltrating.
Former Deputy General of Police, Tripura G M Srivastav, the man credited for curbing insurgency in Tripura thinks it is a part of a larger conspiracy.
Srivastav says, “NFLT has been on the decline and they have been totally dependent on ISI and the support system they have in Bangladesh and a little bit in our own country. People with certain political designs have been trying to help them out.”
Agartala showed amazing resilience and people thronged the markets to do last minute shopping for Durga puja.
It is clear though that terrorism has reached it most unlikely destination, away from mainland India and spreading it's tentacles fast.
(with inputs from Sumon Chakrabarti and Ratnadeep Chowdhury)
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