Blasts in India’s Assam State Kill Seven, Injure 62

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Source: Bloomberg

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Three blasts in India’s separatist- hit northeastern state of Assam killed seven people and wounded 62 on the eve of a visit by the prime minister, officials and television channels said.

The first explosion in a market in Guwahati, Assam’s largest city, caused all the fatalities and injured 56, Director General of Police G.M. Srivastava said by phone. A second blast about two hours later in the northern Assam town of Dhekiajuli injured four people, he said.

The third explosion in Dhubri district was caused by a grenade and injured two people, the Times Now television channel reported, without saying where it got the information.

The explosions came a day before leading rebel group United Liberation Front of Asom, or ULFA, marks the anniversary of its founding, around which it often stages attacks.



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