Assam blast kills 2 : injures 30 !!

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Assam blast kills 2; injures 30

When Is This Nonsense Going To End In India : A BOMB exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring another 30, a state government official said. The explosion occurred shortly after the train arrived at Diphu railroad station, about 300 kilometres south of Gauhati, the capital of Assam state, said District Magistrate M.C. Sahu. The train was heading from Lumding in central Assam to the eastern commercial hub of Tinsukhia, Mr Sahu said. All the 30 wounded have been hospitalised, three of them in critical condition, he said. The bomb was a timed device, left in a bag on an overhead rack of the train coach and it blew off a part of the roof, said Mr K.K. Sharma, a superintendent of police. While no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, Mr Sharma said an ethnic insurgent group, Karbi Longri National Liberation Front, fighting for wide autonomy in the state for the past five years was suspected. The front is one of the three groups active in the region; the other two groups have reached cease-fire accords with the government. The blast comes just days after suspected Muslim militants attacked targets across Mumbai, killing at least 172 people and injuring 239. Tuesday's blast was not seen as related to the Mumbai attacks. In October, the state had witnessed 13 coordinated bomb attacks which killed 89 people and wounded more than 800 in four towns.

Several insurgents groups are battling for power, for ethnic pride and for control of drug routes in India's north-east, an isolated collection of seven states and hundreds of ethnic groups and subgroups. They fight the government and they fight each other in a region crippled by poverty and political chaos.

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