India-Northeast-Separatists Killed
Twelve tribal separatists have been killed and another injured in a rival gang war in northeastern India's Nagaland state Friday, police said.

A police spokesman said the heavily armed militants belonging to two factions of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) attacked each other with automatic weapons early Friday killing 12 and injuring another near village Seithekhema, 20 km off Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland.

"Clashes broke out between the NSCN's Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) faction and the NSCN-Unification (NSCN-U) and continued for about four hours in which 12 militants were killed and another wounded," Liremo Lotha, police chief of Dimapu, said by telephone.

The immediate provocation for the attack was not immediately known, although the police official said the clashes broke out for territorial supremacy in the area.

At least 20 people have been killed in group clashes between rival NSCN factions in the past month.