2:03 AM
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GAUHATI: Police say a bomb explosion has killed at least one person in India’s violence-wracked northeast.
A police official says the blast occurred Wednesday near a large fairground in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state. The area is near a convention center that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to visit Saturday.
The police official says the victim appeared to have been carrying the bomb.
The official did not identify himself, citing department policy.
Few other details were immediately available.
Separatist groups in the region claim the local population is ignored by the federal government.
Most residents are ethnically closer to groups in Myanmar and China than the rest of India.
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