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India: 8 injured in bomb blasts
09/08/2005 11:25 - (SA)
New Delhi - At least eight people including an old woman were seriously injured on Tuesday when two bombs blamed on Maoist rebels exploded at a bus station in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, a report said.
The bombs were concealed in two lunch boxes, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted police as saying.
Police suspect the blasts to be the handiwork of Indian Maoist rebels, the report said.
Violence by the Maoists, who say they are battling for the rights of peasants and landless labourers, has been on the rise since peace talks between the state government and the rebels collapsed in January.
On June 4 more than 100 rebels armed with rocket launchers, grenades and automatic weapons attacked two remote police stations in the state but were fought off.
More than 6 000 people have died in the more than three-decade-old insurgency in the mainly agricultural state.
- AFP
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