At least 10 people were killed and four others wounded as militants armed with automatic weapons opened fire in India´s remote northeast, police said Friday.
L.R. Bishnoi, the inspector general of Kokrajhar district in Assam state, said the killings took place in two separate attacks late Thursday. He said rebels from a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were behind the attacks and that those killed belonged to the minority Muslim community.
The first attack took place in a village in Baksa district in western Assam when at least eight rebels opened fire on a group of villagers sitting in a courtyard.
The second attack took place in Kokrajhar district when more than 20 armed men broke open the doors of two homes and sprayed them with bullets killing seven people. He gave no reason for the attacks.
