Bicycle bomb kills two, 16 hurt
A bomb tied to a bicycle has exploded outside a supermarket in eastern India, killing at least two people and wounding 16 others, police said.
Kundan Lal Tamta, an inspector general of police, said the bomb went off in Alipurduar, about 400 miles north-east of Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal state.
All of the injured were hospitalised, including three in critical condition, Tamta said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
"We can't say right now which group is involved in the attack," Tamta told The Associated Press.
The Kamatapur Liberation Organisation, a regional rebel group, has been fighting since 2000 for a separate state comprising parts of the neighbouring states of West Bengal and Assam.
The area is near India's troubled north-east, which is beset by dozens of conflicts and an array of rebel groups. More than 10,000 people have died in separatist violence over the past decade.