 GUWAHATI: Three people were killed and nine injured on Thursday when an explosive device went off in a railway station parking lot in the main of Assam, said police. The blast took place in the early evening when a large crowd had packed the area. The explosion killed two instantly, and one man died of his injuries later at hospital, said doctors at the Guwahati Medical College. Police sealed off the station, where three passenger trains were waiting at the time of the blast, and troops set up roadblocks across the city. “The bomb was hidden in a sack and kept on a rickshaw,” said police. |