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MONTH: March 2007

Assam bomb kills birds

 

Guwahati, Assam-- Harmlessly botched, according to most reports, a February 4, 2007 bombing attributed to the United Liberation Front of Assam killed "dozens of egrets, crows, and other birds" in central Guwahati, e-mailed news videographer Azam Siddique, who hoped to alert rescuers.

"The bomb was placed in a car near a temple," Siddique said. "As the car was left in a no parking zone, it was towed to the police station and parked below tall trees which are used by birds as shelter." Apparently meant to detonate at 3:00 p.m., the bomb instead exploded at 3:00 a.m.

Whether anyone responded to Siddique's alert is unknown. Animal welfare groups have little presence in Assam, a remote state that lies between China to the north, Bangladesh and Burma to the south.