Death toll rises to 10 in India explosions

  • 12/15/2022
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GAUHATI, India, April 07, SPA -- Three critically injured people diedovernight in hospitals, raising the death toll to 10 inthree explosive attacks that hit India's restivenortheastern state of Assam, police said Tuesday. Another 59 people were injured in coordinated attacks onMonday, a day before an election campaign visit to thestate by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said Bhaskar Mahanta, aninspector-general of state police. A spokeswoman for Singh's office, Deepak Sandhu, said theprime minister's trip, due later Tuesday, had not beencanceled. G.M. Srivastava, the state's top police officer, blamedseparatist United Liberation Front of Asom for Monday'sexplosions on the eve of the 30th anniversary of itsfounding, according to a report of Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/652013

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