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Four wounded in bomb blast in western Indian town AHMEDABAD, India, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Four people were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb exploded in a bus in a western Indian town, where the torching of a train in February triggered the country's worst religious violence in a decade, police said. The bomb went off in a state-run bus outside a bus station in Godhra, 150 km (95 miles) northwest of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, Narasimh Komar, superintendent of police of Panchmahal district told Reuters. The condition of one of the wounded was serious, while the other three had minor injuries, he said. The bomb, planted beneath one of the rear seats of the vehicle, destroyed some seats and shattered its windows. "In all probability it was a crude bomb, otherwise the impact would have been greater," Komar said. Nearly 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in Gujarat in late February and March after a suspected Muslim mob torched a train at Godhra, killing 59 Hindu activists. Police in Gujarat have been on high alert after two suspected Muslim militants attacked a temple in Gandhinagar, the state's capital, killing 28 people late last month. |
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