WORLD BRIEFING / INDIA
Four bomb blasts killed eight people in India’s troubled northeastern state of Assam, a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s scheduled visit to the region, police said.
Authorities blamed the state’s main separatist group, the United Liberation Front of Asom. Singh’s visit would go ahead, a spokesman said.
The first bomb exploded in a crowded parking area in Guwahati, killing seven people, police said. Another person was killed when rebels threw grenades at a police station in Mankachar, near the border with Bangladesh.
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