India-Guwahati-Militants Ambushed
Tribal militants Thursday ambushed and killed 11 people in two separate attacks in in northeastern India's Assam state, officials said.

A police spokesman said heavily armed militants of the Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlossa faction) or the DHD(J)waylaid four cement-laden trucks near village Panimur in North Cachar Hills district, about 290 km south of Assam's main city of Guwahati.

"Four trucks belonging to a private cement company were waylaid, and 10 occupants of the vehicles were lined up and shot dead by armed rebels who also set the trucks ablaze," a senior police official said requesting not to be named.

In a separate incident, the rebels opened indiscriminate fire on a railway engine carrying an inspection team, killing its driver and injuring three others, including a paramilitary trooper, the police official said. The incident took place near village Kalachand in the same district.

Police blamed both the attacks on the DHD-J, a rebel group fighting for an independent homeland for the Dimasa tribe in southern Assam.