India bombing 'kills at least 17'

At least 17 people have been killed and 20 injured in a bombing in the north-east Indian city of Imphal, police say.
A bomb in an auto rickshaw went off near a police base in the city, which is the capital of Manipur state. Police say most of the dead are civilians.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. It comes two days after a suspected militant grenade attack outside the chief minister's home.
Correspondents say Manipur is home to about a dozen rebel groups.
Some are fighting for the state's independence, others for autonomous tribal homelands.
The explosion ripped through a busy market area near an oil depot in central Imphal, where many people were eating in food stalls.
"It was a gory sight... bodies spattered in blood," said local journalist Yumnan Rupachandra. More

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