Guwahati: The Kamrup Metropolitan District organized a shraddhanjali ceremony close to the Ganeshguri Flyover in Guwahati on Sunday to honour and remember all those who lost their life in the serial bombing in October 2008.
The horrific bomb attack that occurred on October 30, 2008, in Guwahati alone resulted in up to 80 fatalities and more than 400 people were physically disabled.
Notably, the bomb blast took place in Ganeshguri, Panbazaar, Kachari, Barpeta, Kokrajhar, and Bongaigaon.
The founder of the now-disbanded National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), Ranjan Daimary had planned a series of explosions.
For the series of explosions, he was found guilty and given a life sentence.
He was in jail since 2019 after being convicted by a special court in the serial blasts case in 2008 that rocked Assam.
The day is memorialised in the state’s history as “Black Day.”
Meanwhile, taking to Twitter Assam Health Minister Keshab Mahanta paid tribute to the lives lost and wrote, “On this cursed day of 2008, we pay tribute to the innocent people who passed away untimely. The memory of the painful day of terrorism still haunts my heart.”