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Separatist militants opened fire with automatic weapons on Muslim villagers in remote northeastern India, killing at least 10 people, including two children, in two attacks, police said Friday. Four people were wounded.
Rebels from one faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were behind the attacks late Thursday, said L.R. Bishnoi, the inspector general of police in the Bodo areas of Assam state.
All the dead were Muslims, he said, and included six women and the two children.
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. Three people were killed and two others wounded, Bishnoi said.
According to eyewitnesses quoted by local television channels, the second attack took place in Kokrajhar district when more than 20 armed men, their faces covered with black hoods, broke open the doors of two homes and sprayed them with bullets, killing seven people.
Mohammed Sheikh Ali, wailed and beat his forehead as he identified the bodies of his dead relatives outside a police station, in footage aired on a local television station.
Rebels from one faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland were behind the attacks late Thursday, said L.R. Bishnoi, the inspector general of police in the Bodo areas of Assam state.
All the dead were Muslims, he said, and included six women and the two children.
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. Three people were killed and two others wounded, Bishnoi said.
According to eyewitnesses quoted by local television channels, the second attack took place in Kokrajhar district when more than 20 armed men, their faces covered with black hoods, broke open the doors of two homes and sprayed them with bullets, killing seven people.
Mohammed Sheikh Ali, wailed and beat his forehead as he identified the bodies of his dead relatives outside a police station, in footage aired on a local television station.