(Updates toll, number of bombs) GUWAHATI, India, Oct 1 (Reuters) - At least two people were killed and about 100 wounded when four bombs exploded in a town in India's remote northeast on Wednesday, police said. Police said they suspected Muslim militant groups, based in neighbouring Bangladesh, were behind the blasts in the Radhanagar and Gulbazar areas of Agartala -- capital of Tripura state. "Two people have died and several of the injured are in critical condition in hospital," police spokesman Nepal Das said from Agartala by phone. One of the bombs went off at a bus stand while the remaining three exploded in and around a market in quick succession during the evening rush-hour. Sanjiv Sen, a witness, told Reuters by phone from Agartala: "There is total chaos. There were people out shopping when the explosions occurred." He said many of the wounded were women. The state, bordering Bangladesh, was on alert for possible attacks ahead of a major Hindu festival starting at the weekend. Pranay Sahay, Tripura police chief, told reporters Muslim militants from Bangladesh could be behind the bombings, but he did not immediately identify any group. "Security along the border has been tightened," he said, referring to nearly 840 km (520 miles) of porous border with Bangladesh. Agartala is about five km (three miles) from the international border. A wave of bomb attacks has hit India in recent months, killing more than 125 people. Police have blamed most of those attacks on Muslim militants. Last month, Indian troops killed at least seven heavily armed militants from a Bangladesh-based Islamist group in a gunbattle in the troubled northeastern state of Assam. Ringed by China, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Bhutan, India's northeast is home to more than 200 tribes and has been racked by separatist revolts since India gained independence from Britain in 1947. (Reporting by Biswajyoti Das; editing by Krittivas Mukherjee)
A bomb blast victim is treated inside a hospital in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura October 1, 2008. At least one person was killed and 35 people were ...
