Bomb kills 2, wounds 7 in India's Assam
Source: Reuters
(Updates death toll) GUWAHATI, India, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A motorcycle bomb killed two people and wounded seven in a crowded market in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam on Saturday, police said. They said suspected rebels belonging to the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were behind the explosion in Tinsukia town, about 600 km (370 miles) east of the state's main city, Guwahati. "The bomb was kept on a motorbike on the roadside," a police officer told Reuters by telephone from Tinsukia. A man died on the spot while another succumbed to his injuries in a hospital, he added. Violence has flared in oil- and timber-rich Assam in recent months after talks between representatives of the rebel group and the Indian government failed to make headway. Two people were killed and 10 others wounded on Friday in a bomb blast at a crowded bus station in Guwahati and earlier this month, 72 labourers, who were not from the state, were killed by suspected ULFA militants, prompting a visit to the region by the prime minister. The ULFA insurgency has killed more than 20,000 people since it began in 1979. The rebels want Assam's independence from India.
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