India: 42 Migrant workers killed in rebel attacks

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.

The attacks targeted poor, Hindi-speaking migrants in the state of Assam, and suspicion immediately fell on the rebel United Liberation Front of Asom, which is fighting for an independent homeland for the region’s Assamese speaking people, the state’s police chief, R.N. Mathur, said.