Terrorist attack in Diphu, Karbi Anglong, Assam on 12/1/2008

Terrorist attack (powerful Bomb blast) in 3rd Coach of a Passenger Train at the Diphu railway station, in Karbi Anglong district, about 300 km (200 miles) east of Assam's main city of Gauhati (misnomer: Guwahati) on 12/1/2008 at 0750 hrs. The train was heading from Lumding in central Assam to the eastern commercial hub of Tinsukia in eastern Assam. Two persons killed and 30 injured in the bomb blast.

Police sources said the bomb, kept inside coach number 8209 of 901 Lumding-Tinsukia passenger train, exploded around 8 am as it entered Diphu railway station.

The outlawed Karbi Longri National Liberation Front (KLNLF), a rebel group fighting for an independent homeland for the majority Karbi tribe in the area, is one of the powerful outfits in the region where the explosion took place.

The KLNLF Tuesday launched an economic blockade in the region to pressurize the government to hold peace talks.

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