New Delhi (February 19, 2018): Indian police have claimed Monday that a candidate in upcoming state elections along with four others killed in a bomb attack while traveling in a restive northeast region of India.
The blast tore through a car in Meghalaya state late Sunday as Jonathone N Sangma, a 43-year-old candidate for a regional party, travelled to a campaign event in the East Garo Hills district.
India´s remote northeastern states, sandwiched between China, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar and Bangladesh, have witnessed decades of unrest.
Chief Minister of the state Mukul Sangma vowed a speedy investigation into what he called a political assassination by suspected militants.
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