Blast kills 2, injures 10 in Assam

The police suspect rebels belonging to the separatist ULFA are behind the blast at a crowded bus station in Guwahati.

A bomb hidden in a vegetable basket exploded in a crowded bus station in the troubled state of Assam on Friday, killing two people and wounding 10, police said.

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Police said they suspected rebels belonging to the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) were behind the blast in Guwahati.

Police said the bomb was hidden in a vegetable basket, which was left at the crowded station which serves hundreds of commuters daily.

The insurgency -- which ULFA says is aimed at gaining Assam's independence from India -- has killed more than 20,000 people since it began in 1979.