According to CNN, United States intelligence agencies had warned India "twice" about a potential maritime attack on Mumbai at least a month before the terror hit the financial capital of India leaving approximately hundred dead and three hundred injured.

"The United States warned the Indian government about a potential maritime attack against Mumbai at least a month before last week's massacre in the country's financial capital," the CNN quoted a US counter-terrorism official as saying.

A train blast in Assam on Tuesday killed three people, leaving more than 30 wounded. According to the reports, one person died on the spot while two succumbed to their injuries at a local hospital.

"The train was parked at the Diphu railway station when a powerful explosion went off inside one of the crowded coaches," revealed a railway official.

"There are a large number of women and children among the casualties. The condition of at least six of them are stated to be critical," the police official said.

The police are yet to ascertain the culprits behind the blast.

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New Delhi - Three people were killed and over 30 injured in a powerful explosion inside a passenger train in India's north-eastern state of Assam on Tuesday, news reports said.

The blast occurred in a carriage of an inter-city passenger train which was stationary at the Diphu railway station, about 300 kilometres east of Assam's main city of Guwahati, IANS news agency reported.

The train was travelling from Guwahati to Tinsukia in eastern Assam.

Police said at least six people were critically injured.

According to the health authorities, a fresh outbreak of bird flu was discovered in Hajo block of Kamrup district in Assam. Since last Saturday, over 200 birds have died in the area.  

The state authorities have ordered culling thousands of chicken and ducks.

R. C. Jain, a senior state government official said, “We were informed that the samples sent to laboratories in Bhopal and Pune have been tested positive. So we have ordered for culling in the area, which will start today.”

"It is H5N1 stain," added the official.

Assam police has arrested 15 persons directly involved in the serial blast that rocked the North-Eastern state on Oct 30.

Master minds behind the blast also have been identified, said Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi.

"The main brains or sources behind the blasts here are suspected to be based in Bangladesh," he said.

"We have been able to identify all those directly involved in the blasts, barring for the explosion at Kokrajhar," the CM added.