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Ten wounded in train bomb blast in India Assam state

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - At least 10 people were wounded after a bomb ripped through a passenger coach of a train in India's troubled state of Assam, officials said on Tuesday.

"So far we have information of ten people wounded, two of them are in serious condition," Jayanta Sarma, spokesman for the railways in Assam, told Reuters.

No one has claimed responsibility yet.

Separatist rebels are often blamed for attacks in India's Assam state, a remote region riddled by insurgencies over the last few decades.

But coordinated bomb blasts in Assam in October, which killed at least 77 people, were blamed on Islamist militants from neighbouring Bangladesh in league with separatists.

(Reporting by Biswajyoti Das; Writing by Alistair Scrutton; Editing by)

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