One dead, 12 injured in Guwahati blast

GUWAHATI: A bomb planted by suspected separatist rebels in a crowded market killed one person and wounded 12 others on Tuesday in Guwahati.

Police said the bomb was placed in a tin container and left in a shop in a market in central Guwahati.

The toll from the blast could have been worse but for an alert shopkeeper who spotted the suspicious object and tried to throw it in a drain, said S N Singh, the city's police superintendent. The shopkeeper was killed.

"It went off in his hands," Singh said.