Eight killed in a bomb blast in India's Assam

Updated June 30, 2008 01:21:33


A bomb blast in India's troubled northeastern Assam state has left at least eight people dead in a crowded village market.

Police suspect it's the work of the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom which is fighting for an independent homeland for the state's more than 26 million people.

More than 45 people were wounded in the blast at Kumarikata, a small village near the border with Bhutan.

Police say the toll could rise as they search for more bodies and evacuate the injured to hospitals.

Police also recovered another bomb from the market.

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