3 killed in Assam bomb blast
Suspected militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) triggered the blast Friday at a busy vegetable market in Dhekiajuli town, about 140km north of Assam's main city of Guwahati, police said.
"The market was crowded with evening shoppers when the powerful bomb went off," Assam police intelligence chief Khagen Sharma told AFP.
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Two paramilitary troopers were among the injured.
Sharma said the bomb was concealed in a bag and kept on a bicycle in the centre of the market. No one has claimed responsibility.
The Ulfa has been fighting for an independent Assamese homeland since 1979.
More than 10,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam during the past two decades.
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