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India: Bus hits landmine; 4 killed, 25 injured

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

JULY 30, 2010 08:38

GAUHATI — Suspected separatist rebels triggered a land mine explosion Friday that killed at least four paramilitary soldiers and injured 25 others in India's remote northeastern state of Assam, Indian police said.

The soldiers were traveling in two buses when the militants used a remote control device to trigger the explosion, said Luis Aind, district superintendent of police. The blast occurred near the town of Goalpara, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) west of the state capital, Gauhati.

Four soldiers were killed instantly, Aind said. The wounded soldiers, some of them with critical injuries, were taken to a nearby hospital.

It was not immediately clear if both the buses were hit by the explosion, said Aind, speaking by telephone from Goalpara.

Initial investigations indicate that the rebels belonged to a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, an insurgent group that has been fighting for independence from India since 1986, Aind said.

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