India bomb blast kills one, injures 12
Sunday, 2 September 2007
GUWAHATI, (India) Sept 1 (AFP): A powerful explosion at a busy market killed one person and wounded 12, four of them critically, in India's revolt-hit northeast, police said Saturday. Police blamed the blast on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), a rebel group fighting for an independent homeland since 1979.
"The bomb was probably planted in a van parked near a multi-purpose market. Most of the victims were pedestrians, shoppers, and vendors," deputy police chief Rajen Singh told AFP in Guwahati, the main city in Assam state. Police said a few shops were gutted in the blast.
"This is the handiwork of the ULFA and an attempt to make their presence felt," the police official said.
There was no comment from ULFA, which has been blamed for a string of attacks in which 30 people were killed in Assam in July.
The rebel group has also been blamed for about 25 explosions this year in the oil, tea and timber-rich region.
"The bomb was probably planted in a van parked near a multi-purpose market. Most of the victims were pedestrians, shoppers, and vendors," deputy police chief Rajen Singh told AFP in Guwahati, the main city in Assam state. Police said a few shops were gutted in the blast.
"This is the handiwork of the ULFA and an attempt to make their presence felt," the police official said.
There was no comment from ULFA, which has been blamed for a string of attacks in which 30 people were killed in Assam in July.
The rebel group has also been blamed for about 25 explosions this year in the oil, tea and timber-rich region.