GAUHATI,India-Suspected separatist rebels killed four Hindi-speaking migrant workers before dawn Sunday in India's insurgency-wracked northeast, police said, bringing the death toll from a week of violence to 27."About six militants armed with assault rifles arrived in the village of Romgmong Ghat, barged into two houses and shot four people dead after dragging them out early Sunday," said L.R. Bishnoi, a senior police officer in Assam state.
Militants often target migrants, who are resented as outsiders representing the federal government far away in New Delhi.The militants say New Delhi, 1,000 miles to the west, exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for the indigenous people,most of them ethnically closer to Burma and China than to the rest of India.Late Friday, a group of gunmen armed with assault rifles entered a village inhabited by mostly Hindi-speaking migrants from other parts of India and opened fire,killing 11 people, Bishnoi said."They barged into two houses and opened fire at random," he said. The attack occurred in Dolamora village, some 155 miles east of Gauhati, Assam's capital.
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