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40 injured in market blast
Diphu (Assam): At least 40 people were injured, 18 of them seriously, when a cycle bomb ripped through a market in Howraghat town in central Assam’s hill district of Karbi Anglong on Thursday.
The bomb was allegedly detonated by the Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF) at 12.45 p.m. in the vegetable market on Netaji Subhash Road.
The seriously injured persons were referred to the Nagaon civil hospital in neighbouring Nagaon district.
Others were discharged after first aid.
The police had received intelligence inputs that the KLNLF had plans to launch a series of explosions in the district at the behest of the United Liberation Front of Asom, the sources said.
Two KLNLF militants were arrested by security forces on Tuesday. Jiten Hansie was nabbed from Manja area with a Chinese grenade while the other, Kangpura Rongpi alias Rang Rongpi, from Diphu.
The KLNLF has been leading an armed struggle for a homeland for Karbi tribals living in two hill districts of Assam, Karbi Anglong and North Cacher.
Several militant outfits holding out demands ranging from autonomy to secession are active in the north-eastern state.
More than 20,000 people have been killed in violence in the State since 1979. - Agencies
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