Bomb blast kills child, injures 9 in Kolkata

An eight-year-old child was killed and at least nine other people injured yesterday when a homemade bomb went off in a suburb of the Indian city of Kolkata, police said. India's eastern West Bengal state, of which Kolkata is the capital, has a long history of political violence and targeted killings of rival party activists. Eyewitnesses described a "powerful explosion" to local media and said that it shattered the windows of nearby buildings.