Click to play videoNew Delhi: The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) has called a statewide 12-hour bandh on Wednesday.
ULFA called the bandh after the wives of six of its cadres who were on a fast-unto-death were arrested and sent to a hospital on the tenth day of their protest on March 30.
They had been on indefinite hunger strike demanding information about their husbands.
ULFA says the six cadres have been missing after the Army's joint military operation with Bhutan in 2003.
Security has been tightened across the state. Patrolling along highways and bridges has been intensified and additional security personnel have been deployed at vital installations.
Emergency services including water supply, milk, health services, electricity and media have been exempted from the purview of the bandh, ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said in an e-mail.
On the eve of the bandh, 15 persons were injured in a bomb blast carried out by the ULFA in the busy Kedar Road on Guwahati on Tuesday.
The bomb was planted near a vegetable market, Kamrup (Metro) Deputy Commissioner Avinash Joshi said.
Earlier on Tuesday, increased security ahead of the bandh led to the recovery of a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) near an army camp at Bhalukmora in Jorhat district.
Police defused the timed device, hidden in a jar, officials said.
(With inputs from agencies)
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