HYDERABAD (India), Sept 7: Maoists rebels targeted a federal MP and a state minister from India’s ruling Congress party in a bomb attack that left three people dead, police said on Friday.

The attack occurred southeast of Hyderabad, the capital of southern Andhra Pradesh state, as MP Janardhana Reddy and his wife, a state minister for women development and child welfare, were on their way to a university event. An apparently remote-controlled bomb hit their convoy as it passed over a bridge, killing two party activists and a driver. The couple were unhurt.

“When the convoy was passing over a culvert, the Maoists targeted one of the cars, thinking they were in that vehicle,” Nellore district police chief K. Lakshmi Reddy said.—AFP