GAUHATI: A grenade explosion and a subsequent stampede during a Hindu festival in northeastern India left four people dead and 40 injured, police said Thursday…
No one claimed responsibility for the blast. Indian army spokesman Col S D Goswami said the attackers escaped after detonating the grenade. Dozens of insurgencies have festered for years across India’s seven northeastern states, of which Manipur is one. Nearly all are fighting for autonomy or independent homelands for the region’s indigenous peoples, most of them ethnically closer to Burma and China than to the rest of India…
