November 26, 2007	Monday	Ziqa’ad 15, 1428

GUWAHATI: At least one person was killed and more than 20 injured in three separate blasts in India’s restive northeast Assam state on Sunday, police said.

Two explosions in the heart of Assam’s main city of Guwahati killed one person and injured eight, a senior police official said, requesting anonymity.

“The blasts took place near a crowded market place adjacent to a Muslim graveyard,” the official said.

In Tinsukia town, about 550km east of Guwahati, a bomb placed in a car exploded at a market place injuring 12, most of them evening shoppers and vendors, a police official said.

“The device was brought in a car and before the explosion the driver jumped off and fled the scene on a motorbike of an accomplice,” Tinsukia police chief Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan said. Police blamed all three blasts on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom.—AFP