Five killed in rebel blasts in northern India

Separatist militants in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam killed five people and wounded at least 50 in bombings.

Separatist militants in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam killed five people and wounded at least 50 in bombings.

Nur Banu Begam weeps for her son who was wounded in a grenade attack outside a cinema hall in Dibrugarh in Northern India.
Nur Banu Begam weeps for her son who was wounded in a grenade attack outside a cinema hall in Dibrugarh in Northern India.

Intelligence officers blamed the blasts on the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which had claimed responsibility for an earlier blast that killed 22 people at a ceremony to mark India's independence day this month.

ULFA has been fighting for Assam's independence since the late 1970s.

Police said ULFA militants threw a grenade outside a crowded cinema on Wednesday night in Dibrugarh, the biggest town in eastern Assam, killing one and wounding seven people.

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About 10,000 people have been killed in 25 years of insurgency in Assam, an oil- and tea-producing state that the rebels say is exploited and neglected by the central government.

The separatist rebels claimed responsibility for a bomb attack on August

15th in Dhemaji town in which 22 people were killed, including about a dozen children.