GUWAHATI, India - Suspected anti-India militants exploded a bomb outside a crowded railway station in the northeastern state of Assam on Thursday, killing three people including a six-year-old girl, police said. The blast took place in a taxi parking lot near a military transit camp outside the train station in Guwahati, the biggest city of northeastern India.While one person was killed instantly another succumbed to his wounds in hospital, police said. The body of a girl, aged about six, was later found at the site and police suspected that she may also have been killed instantly. Five people were wounded.
Police said they suspected the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which has been fighting for the freedom of Assam for more than two decades.