Assam, 5 October (AKI/Asian Age) - Seaparatist rebels in northeastern India shot and killed at least 11 villagers, police said on Monday. Separatist and tribal rebels are often blamed for attacks in India's northeastern Assam state, a remote region hit by insurgencies in recent years.

After lying low for a month, predominantly Christian rebels from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland rebels on Sunday gunned down 11 people and wounded nine others at Dhimajuli village in central Assam’s Sonitpur district.

Sonitpur's police superintendent Surendra Kumar said people were forced out of their houses and shot randomly.