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AHMEDABAD, Thursday (AFP) At least seven people were injured Wednesday when a bomb went off at a bus station in India's riot-torn western state of Gujarat, police said.

The battery-operated "crude bomb" went off at Lonawada bus station near Godhra, said police chief Narsimha Kumar.

He said the injuries did not appear to be serious.

Riots broke out across Gujarat after a Muslim mob on February 27 attacked a train packed with Hindu activists in Godhra, killing 58.

At least 1,000 people were killed in the riots, most of them Muslims.

The state government, run by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Hindu-nationalist BJP party, has been accused by opposition parties and human rights groups of turning a blind eye to attacks on Muslims.

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