| Separatist rebels in India's insurgency-racked northeast blew up an oil pipeline and injured at least five soldiers Thursday in a string of explosions, police said. The attacks in Assam came on the heels of a burst of deadly rebel violence in the state last month and followed a visit earlier this week by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The rebels blew up a crude oil pipeline belonging to India's state-owned Oil India Ltd in the Lankachi area in eastern Assam state. In another attack, rebels injured five soldiers when they hurled a grenade at an army vehicle in Dibrugarh city, 500 kilometres east of Assam's main city of Guwahati. "Five soldiers were wounded, the condition of some of them is critical," Assam Inspector General of Police Khagen Sharma said, adding authorities were braced for more violence. No group claimed responsibility but Sharma blamed the attacks on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom. |