Powerful blast misses humans, targets birds instead

[Guest guest]

Guwahati:

 

This time it was not innocent human lives that bore the impact of bomb

blasts by militants which is a common things here in Assam, instead it

was dozens of birds, which included egrets, crows and other common

birds who were charred in a car bomb that expoled late last night.

 

The bomb was a PTD ( Programmed Timed Device ) which was kept in a

maruti 800 car near a temple at one of the crowded localities of

Guwahati city called Fancy Bazar to target innocent human lives.

As it was parked at a NO PARKING zone the car was towed away and

brought to the area close to the local Police station was then parked

below some tall trees which are used by the local city birds as

shelter.

The programming of the bomb which security officials believe was

wrongly done as 3.00AM instead of 3.00PM.

 

 

The impact of the blast fortunately could not take any human life as

it was midnite, but for the dozens of birds it was nightmare of all

sorts.

Some died on the spot, some are still dying. Feathers burnt of, eyes

blinded. It was a gory sight as one reporter described who went to the

spot in the morning.

The car which was reduced into bits and pieces of metal and sheets if

the car were found wrapped onto the trees nearby

I do not know if any animal care organisation has rushed to the

rescue, because at the time of filing this report I am in the airport

and about to catch a flight to Imphal.

I hope Ms. Sangeeta Goswami, chairperson of PFA ( ASSAM ) gets this

information and some help reaches out for the injured birds.

 

Azam Siddiqui