Four people died when a separatist rebel in north-east India opened fire at a police station where election voting was being held.

Suspected rebels woke up sleeping villagers in north-eastern India and opened fire with automatic weapons, killing six of them and raising the death toll to 63 from three days of violence in a region where dozens of ethnic rebel groups are fighting for separate homelands.

Two powerful bombs exploded minutes apart at a crowded railroad station and a market in India’s north-eastern state of Nagaland today, killing 26 people and injuring 84, the state government head said.