Overview
- The goods train UP Azara Sugar reported a heavy jerk around 1:00 am between Salakati and Kokrajhar, revealing track and sleeper damage consistent with a suspected bomb blast about five kilometres from Kokrajhar station.
- No casualties or derailment occurred, and the crew’s immediate stop is credited by officials with averting a more serious incident.
- Train operations were halted overnight with roughly eight trains detained, the damaged section was repaired by about 5:25 am, and patrols along the corridor have been intensified.
- Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said one person has been identified in connection with the blast, noting prior cases in Assam and Jharkhand, as police work toward an arrest.
- Assam DGP Harmeet Singh reviewed security in Kokrajhar, forensic samples were collected, no group has claimed responsibility, and investigators are examining possible militant links as reports vary on the extent of track damage.