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Oct 30 blast victims to be remembered today

By Staff Reporter

GUWAHATI, Oct 29 - The Kamrup Metro district administration is organising a public meeting at the memorial below the flyover at Ganeshguri at 10 am tomorrow to pay tribute to the victims of the October 30, 2008, serial bomb blasts.

At 6 pm, lighting of lamps and public tribute to the victims will be held.

The All Assam Students� Union (AASU) will also observe the 9th anniversary of the serial blasts that had claimed around a hundred lives in Guwahati, Barpeta Road, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon. To mark the occasion, the student body will light earthen lamps at every district headquarters of the State besides making a clarion call to put an end to terrorism.

In a statement, the AASU said that terrorism cannot have any place in a civilised society and the government must make a concerted effort to bring an end to all acts of terrorism. It also demanded that punishment be meted out to all those involved in the serial blasts, which marked the worst act of terror in Assam.

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