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Serial bombs kill 68 and injure 470 in India's Assam state
Eleven bomb blasts in quick succession ripped through the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 33 people and wounding 200, police said. No one has claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts. Assam has been a focus of a Firefighters doused smouldering remains of cars and motorcycles at one of the blast sites in Guwahati. One of the blasts targeted a high security zone with a court as well as offices and homes of senior police officials. Many of the blasts were in crowded markets in the state. Television channels showed some people lying on the streets, their clothes soaked in blood. Some of the walking wounded were helped into ambulances by local people and police. "So far, we have received reports of 33 deaths and 200 people wounded in 11 blasts," a police officer in the main control room told Reuters. "The impact of the blast was so huge, a packed bus got half burnt and we pulled out lot of injured people and sent them to hospital," Pankaj Goswami, a witness at a blast in Guwahati, said. Local television said a curfew was imposed in Guwahati after crowds angry at the blasts attacked police and set cars on fire. Police fired in the air to disperse an angry mob. Posted by: ryuge 2008-10-30 |
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