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Nine killed in clash in northeastern India GUWAHATI, India, Sunday (Reuters) Nine people, including five separatist guerrillas, were killed in northeastern India on Saturday in a clash between militants and civilians, police said. Police said rebels in Lakhipur, about 150 Km (100 miles) west of Guwahati, the biggest city in Assam state, fired at a group of villagers who had raided their camp early on Saturday, killing four of them. Five rebels were also killed. The militants were members of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB), which is fighting for an independent homeland of Bodo tribesmen, estimated at 13 per cent of Assam's 26 million people. The NDFB accuses the government of neglecting the welfare of tribal people and flooding their areas with outsiders. Meanwhile two Nepali porters working for the Indian army were killed and two other people were wounded when Pakistani troops fired artillery shells across a military control line dividing Kashmir, a police spokesman said on Saturday. Artillery duels between the armies of India and Pakistan have continued across the 740 km (460 mile) Line of Control in Kashmir despite efforts by the nuclear-armed neighbours to improve ties after teetering on the brink of their fourth war last year. "Two residents of Nepal who worked as porters with army were killed at Batalik sub-sector last evening," the police spokesman said. Batalik, a remote sector, lies near the Pakistan border in Kargil district northeast of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. |
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