Police centre bomb kills 17 in India

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.

The number of wounded in last night’s blast in Imphal, the capital of Manipur state, also rose to 23 after police received more details from hospitals, said Joykumar Singh, the state’s director general of police.