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India-Pakistan
Bomb kills four in Assam
2009-12-11
[Dawn] A bomb at a crowded marketplace killed four people on Thursday in India's insurgency-racked northeastern state of Assam, police said.

The blast ripped through the market near a police station and army base camp in the town of Missamari, around 220 kilometres (140 miles) north of Assam's main city Guwahati.

Witnesses and police officials said four people died on the spot and 17 others were injured, six critically.

Police blamed the outlawed National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) - a rebel group fighting for an independent homeland for Assam's Bodo tribe - for the attack.

'We strongly suspect the hand of the NDFB in the blast as the area is a stronghold of the outfit,' an intelligence official told AFP.

The NDFB was blamed for a series of explosions in 2008 which killed about 100 people and injured hundreds more.

Posted by:Fred

#1  We really need to get the Muslims and Maoists fighting against each other - sort of like Sunni & Shia did so well in the Iran-Iraq war.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-12-11 08:59  

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