More bombs exploded in Upper Assam, in Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Bongaigoan and Tinsukia districts. The bomb at Ganeshguri was planted in a car.
One of the bomb blasts took place about 100 meters from Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi's official residence.
The blasts took place almost simultaneously at about 1130 hrs IST at crowded marketplaces.
An official said that several people have been injured though he refused to give any figures. Unofficial estimates say that at least 32 people have died in the blasts - seven people have died in the Fancy Bazaar blasts and 15 people have died in the Kokrajhar blasts.
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Intelligence sources have told CNN-IBN that the 'Bravo Company' of the 28th battalion of United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) could be behind the blasts. Two companies of the 28th battalion of ULFA - Alfa and Charlie - have already signed a ceasefire agreement with the government of Assam. ULFA therefore finds itself decimated completely.
However, other officials suspect All Tripura Tiger Force, who trained along with the ULFA.
These two groups are the only ones which have the capability of organising such coordinated blasts.
Gogoi has called for an emergency meeting in Guwahati.
In June this year, a powerful blast injured at least 10 people, two of them critically, in the eastern Assam town of Naogaon. The blast had taken place near a railway station in Naogaon, 130 km from Guwahati.
The police had then blamed the outlawed ULFA for the blast.
In March this year, one person was killed and over 20 injured, including policemen, in a powerful bomb blast in upper Assam's Dhemaji district. The ULFA was blamed again.
Official sources said the bomb exploded in an open field where a local festival Ali-Aie-Lrigang was being celebrated near the telephone exchange at Jonai.
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