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                       7 Killed in Indian Village Attack

   by VOA News

   Officials in India say militants have attacked villagers in northeast
   India, killing seven people and wounding at least nine others.
   Authorities say the attackers opened fire on the villagers who were
   celebrating the Hindu holiday of Diwali in the Golapara district of
   Assam state on Sunday night.
   Police say they suspect members of a rebel group, the Garo National
   Liberation Army, are responsible for the assault.
   "Suspected GLNA extremists, they came in army fatigue dress and opened
   indiscriminate fire without giving them a warning... 6 Rava [tribal
   villagers] persons died and 10 are injured. Out of the 10, when they
   were shifted to the hospital, one of them succumbed to his injury. So
   in total, now seven deaths and nine injured, and all of them... having
   bullet injuries," said Additional Director General of Police (ADG), Law
   and Order, A.P. Raut.

   The injured were rushed to a nearby government hospital.

   Militants belonging to GLNA are based in the Garo hills of India's
   northeastern Meghalaya state.

   More than 200 ethnic and tribal communities live in India's strategic
   northeast, comprised of eight mountainous states and encircled by
   Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and Myanmar.

   More than a dozen insurgent groups have been fighting the government
   for decades in the states of northeastern India, killing thousands in
   attacks on civilians and security forces.

   The groups blame the federal government of plundering the region's
   significant mineral and agricultural resources and forest produce while
   ignoring demands for greater autonomy and greater economic
   opportunities to the locals.

Some information in this report was contributed by Reuters.
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