Guwahati: Attacks by NDFB (National Democratic Front of Bodoland) militants continued to rock Assam for the second day today (Oct 3, 2004) with two bomb blasts and a firing incident injuring eight persons even as Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil arrived in Guwahati to review the security situation.

The attacks took place amidst maximum alert in NDFB dominated areas in view of the outfit's raising day and yesterday's (Oct 2, 2004) terror strikes, the toll in which rose to 26 with a CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel succumbing to injuries.

A bomb exploded in a cloth shop at Dhekiajuli weekly market in Sonitpur district this morning injuring five persons.

Two persons were seriously injured when militants opened indiscriminate fire in another weekly market at Gossaigaon in Kokrajhar district, police said.

A crude bomb exploded in Nalbari town, where NDFB is active, seriously injured a 12 year-old girl.

A CRPF jawan, injured at Diphu in Karbi Anglong district, succumbed to injuries and the condition of his nine colleagues was critical.

Director General of Police P V Sumant told sources that ''maximum alert'' was sounded in the areas where NDFB is active. Additional security forces have been deployed and security along railway tracks intensified following apprehensions that the ultras may target trains.

The Union Home Minister reviewed the security situation with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and other senior officials here. He would later leave for Dimapur in Nagaland where twin blasts killed 26 people and injured over 100 yesterday.