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New Delhi: Two separate bomb explosions killed at least four people and injured several others in western India, officials and local media said on Monday.
One of the blasts, which appeared to be caused by a crude bomb occured at a market in the town of Modasa in the state of Gujarat, officials said.
Reports said rioting broke out after the blast, causing several more injuries, and police resorted to firing in the air to control angry crowds.
The other bomb exploded in the communally sensitive town of Malegaon in the state of Maharashtra, local television said.
The official Press Trust of India news agency said police were investigating the cause of the Gujarat blast, but attributed the blast in Maharashtra state to the explosion of a gas cylinder.
More than 35 people were killed in 2006 when a series of bombs went off in and around a mosque in Malegoan, a textile town in the western state of Maharashtra with a history of tension between Hindus and Muslims.
On Saturday, a bomb exploded in a crowded New Delhi market killing two people and injuring at least 22.
Saturday's explosion occurred a few days after a series of bombs in the capital killed 23 people and wounded more than 100.
It was the latest in a wave of bomb attacks in India in recent months.
The Indian Mujahideen (IM) militant group, an offshoot of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India, says it carried out most of the attacks.
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