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| 9 wounded by blast in Indian rebel area |
| 2007-05-08 |
| A bomb tied to a parked motorcycle wounded 19 people in a shopping district in India’s troubled northeast, police said Monday, adding that they suspect separatist rebels. Three of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition in Assam state’s capital, Gauhati, said police officer Rajen Singh. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Sunday. However, Singh said police suspect the separatist rebel group United Liberation Front of Asom, or ULFA, Singh said. “It looks like an improvised time device strapped to a motorcycle that was parked in a busy locality,” Singh said. It was the third blast in the insurgency-hit Assam state in four days, Singh told The Associated Press. An explosion wounded two people outside a government warehouse in Gauhati on Thursday. The next day, a car bomb left eight people hurt in the eastern tea-growing town of Tinsukia. The rebels have intensified attacks after peace talks with the government broke down in September last year after a six-week truce, with both sides failing to meet each others’ demands. The ULFA, which has been fighting for an independent state since 1979, has since been blamed for the deaths in Assam of more than 70 migrant workers from other parts of India after the truce broke down last year. |
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