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Blasts rock India's Assam state Deadly blasts rock Indian state
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A number of bomb explosions have rocked India's north-eastern state of Assam, police say. At least 24 people have been killed in a series of bomb explosions in India's north-eastern state of Assam, police have said.
Several people have been injured in at least nine blasts, the majority of them in the state capital, Guwahati, early reports say. More than 60 others were injured in at least nine blasts, the majority of them in the state capital, Guwahati.
An Associated Press news agency reporter at the site of one of the blasts said he had seen at least four bodies but this has not been confirmed. The explosions in Guwahati and the towns of Kokrajhar, Barpeta Road and Bongaigaon occurred within an hour after 1100 local time (0530 GMT).
Security forces have been fighting separatist rebels in Assam for decades.Security forces have been fighting separatist rebels in Assam for decades.
Six people were killed in the first explosion in front of the deputy commissioner's office in Guwahati.
Five others were killed in the second explosion at Ganeshguri near the state secretariat and four in Panbazar in central Guwahati.
Five others were killed in three explosions that rocked the western town of Kokrajhar.
Explosions were also reported from the towns of Barpeta Road and Bongaigaon, two towns in western Assam.
Assam police chief RN Mathur said most of the bombs were "planted in cars".
'Massive strikes'
Intelligence officials said the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) was responsible for the blasts.
Most fighters in one of the Ulfa's elite strike battalion have announced a ceasefire with the government and the security forces have attacked and killed many other Ulfa fighters in recent weeks.
"So the Ulfa is striking back in a massive way by taking on soft targets," Assam police chief R N Mathur said.
"No other group can trigger so many blasts in so many places in such a coordinated fashion."
Two north-eastern state capitals - Agartala, capital of Tripura, and Imphal, capital of Manipur - have been rocked by serial explosions this month.
Seventeen people were killed and more than 100 injured in these explosions.
Local separatists were responsible for the explosions in the north-eastern cities.