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06 April 2009: Another Blast shakes Assam, Blast took place in a place called Maligaon inside Guhati city, reports say 7 feared dead and 56 injured
Second Blast:
The second blast took place within two hour in the town Dhekiajuli near Tezpur reports till now claims 4 injuries
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Second Blast:
The second blast took place within two hour in the town Dhekiajuli near Tezpur reports till now claims 4 injuries
Blasts in India’s Assam State Kill Seven, Injure 60 (Update2)
April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Two blasts in India’s separatist-hit northeastern state of Assam killed seven people and wounded 60 on the eve of a visit by the prime minister, officials said.
The first explosion in a market in Guwahati, Assam’s largest city, killed seven people 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 explosions come 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.
Assam, which shares a border with Bhutan and Bangladesh, is home to several groups fighting for independence or autonomy, including ULFA. The groups say local people have not benefited from Assam’s resources, especially the state’s large tea estates and oil fields.
The Guwahati bomb was fixed to a motorcycle and exploded at about 1:45 p.m. local time today, Subhash Das, principal secretary in the state home ministry, said in a phone interview.
The second bomb is thought to have been attached to a cycle, Srivastava said.
Das said that while the evidence pointed towards ULFA involvement, officials were yet to confirm the group’s role.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit Assam tomorrow to campaign for his ruling Congress party ahead of general elections that begin on April 16.
Television pictures showed charred vehicles, burning cars and plumes of smoke billowing from the site of the first blast.
On March 31, an explosion in Guwahati left one person dead and a dozen wounded. At least 89 people were killed and about 477 injured in nine serial bombings on Oct. 30 at various places in Assam.
Security personnel are conducting checks in Guwahati, Das said.
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- ULFA flag raising day.The explosions come 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.