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| Three injured by bomb blast in Assam |
| 2007-01-22 |
| At least three people were injured by a powerful bomb blast Sunday near a railway station in India’s insurgency-hit northeast state of Assam, police said. The blast took place near the parking lot of the main railway station in New Bongaigaon, about 210 kilometers west of Assam’s main city of Guwahati. “Three people were wounded in the explosion,” senior police official A Das told AFP by telephone. On Saturday, three people, including a government official, were killed and 15 injured in two explosions and a shootout in eastern Assam, which has witnessed a spurt of attacks this month. Authorities blamed the latest attacks on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which claims to be fighting for an independent homeland. A man claiming to be a ULFA commander told local newspapers by telephone that the outfit would attack government officials if New Delhi did not stop a military crackdown against it that began on January 8. |
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