A crude bomb killed two people at a busy bus stop a day after another explosion injured five people in the same north-east Indian city.

The death toll from a bomb explosion outside a police training centre in remote northeast India has risen to 17 after three more wounded succumbed to their injuries overnight, police said today.

Hundreds of children from a village in India’s insurgency-wracked northeast have burned their toy guns in a symbolic protest against the violence that surrounds them, activists said today.

Suspected insurgents ambushed a government vehicle and shot three paramilitary soldiers dead, along with one Election Commission official and their civilian driver in India’s troubled north east today, police said.

A grenade explosion and a subsequent stampede during a Hindu festival in north-eastern India left four people dead and 40 injured, including at least four foreigners.

A grenade blast in a Hare Krishna temple during a major Hindu religious festival killed four people in India’s northeast today, police said.

An intense gun battle between two militant groups left 11 people dead in India’s remote northeastern state of Manipur, police said.

Suspected separatist rebels blew up a bridge in north-east India today, killing six people who were travelling on a bus, police said.