Three killed, four injured in grenade explosion in India's Assam
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Guwahati, India, July 26 - At least three persons were killed and four more, including two women and a child, were critically wounded Wednesday in a powerful grenade explosion at a railway station in Indias northeastern state of Assam, officials said.
A police spokesman said suspected militants of the outlawed Dima Haolam Daoga (DHD) lobbed a grenade at a railway station in Maibong in the North Cachar Hill district, about 250 kilometers south of Assam's main city of Guwahati.
The explosion took place adjacent to the platform where a group of passengers who alighted from a train were sitting, police official A.K. Dey told IRNA by telephone from Maibong.
Three persons of a family died on the spot and four more were seriously injured.
The victims belong to a single family who got down at the Maibong station from a train barely 10 minutes before the blast took place.
The train had left the station when the explosion took place.
The dead include the father and his 18-month-old daughter, Dey said.
The injured were shifted to a local hospital with multiple wounds, the official said.
No rebel group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
We are not ruling out the involvement of the DHD in the explosion as the group is active in the area, another senior police official said requesting anonymity.
The DHD is a rebel group fighting for a homeland for the Dimasa tribe in southern and eastern Assam. The group was earlier involved in a bitter ethnic war with the rival Karbi tribe in the region killing close to 100 people last year.
Assam is home to at least half-a-dozen rebel groups seeking independence or autonomy with insurgencies in the state claiming more than 10,000 lives in the past two decades.
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