Suspected separatist rebels shot and killed 42 migrant workers and wounded 19 others in at least 10 separate attacks in India’s remote northeast, officials said.

A bomb blast in a crowded bus killed at least five people and critically wounded 17 today in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

SOLDIERS patrolled India’s northeastern state of Assam yesterday after an orgy of killing, looting and arson targeted at settlers from a neighbouring state.