Six injured after bomb explodes in busy Indian marketplace

New Dehli: At least six people were injured, four of them critically, in an explosion at a crowded marketplace in India's north-eastern state of Assam on wednesday, a news report said.

Police told the IANS news agency that the blast took place in a commercial area in Tezpur city, some 180 kilometres north of state capital Guwahati.

"The bomb was strapped to a bicycle and went off in a market area injuring six people," an unnamed official told the ians. The victims were all shoppers and vendors.

The injured were treated at local hospitals where doctors described four of them to be in critical condition.

Police the banned united liberation front, Asom, for the explosion.