GUWAHATI: An explosion in the parking lot of a bus station early Sunday killed three people and wounded five others in India's remote northeastern state, where several separatist groups operate, police said.
The homemade bomb went off in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, killing three construction workers, said police Superintendent Ibomcha Singh.
Five other men were hospitalised. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Imphal is about 550 kilometers southeast of Guwahati, the biggest city in the region.
At least 17 separatist groups are active in Manipur state and often stage hit-and-run attacks on government forces.
Their demands range from greater autonomy for the state to an independent homeland for the people of Manipur.
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ka
Dec 21, 2014 02:14pm
why not they blame to Pakistan yet.
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Kamal Pasha
Dec 21, 2014 02:18pm
Bombs are exploding everywhere nowadays. This is because of expanding gap between rich and poor as one reason.
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Majid Ahmed
Dec 21, 2014 03:31pm
Pretty obvious that someone is trying to instigate a war between Afghanistan Pakistan and India. .. desperately..
who is this common enemy of all three countries..
Its not a religion.. (which indeed is merely a tool)...
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asgher
Dec 21, 2014 06:34pm
@ka
im also wondering whats the holdup..
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Awais Ali
Dec 22, 2014 12:32am
condemnable. very gruesome situation in whole region.
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Sachin
Dec 22, 2014 11:24am
@Awais Ali Ali....
This whole region called South Asia.. for thousands of years we have had these existential fights... Yet we all survived...
While we all differentiate between - Us and Them.... I feel this is like inter family rivalry... Born of same grand parents we are all first cousins fighting and highlighting differences...
Today we look at each others as strangers. But the moment we are outside this region- say even in GCC countries- we love to talk to each other...Suddenly similarities emerge... Families bond with each other and become great friends..
How strange that we always have something to poke about and get annoyed about each other..
This is because we do have a strong relation somewhere with each other...
And this is so eerily similar to estranged brothers /sisters... Sometimes I think family members/relatives fight the most...and forever..and there is no way one can forget/ignore the other...!
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Sachin
Dec 22, 2014 11:29am
I am so sick of such reports... After the Peshawar attacks....me and my family have been under so much agony/ depression...in spite of the fact that it is far away from home...
About the same time ISIS executed 150 women and some pregnant.. but nothing has made me so so so upset as the Peshawar massacre..
Pakistan...our neighbour, our enemy, our headache, yet the heart does beat for the Pakistanis ..... Why? I dont know...
I feel like slapping you, hitting you, abusing you.... but in the end I feel like hugging and crying with you....
What is this relationship.... Strange!! I have no answers!
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