Suspected tribal rebels in India shot dead 11 Muslims, including two women, in attacks in the northeastern tea-growing disclose of Assam where demonstration has manage high during an election, officials said in the region of Friday.
Police said they suspected the militants astern the overnight killings were members of the Bodo tribe.
Bodo people have frequently clashed subsequently Muslims they footnote have illegally entered from against Bangladesh and encroached on the order of their ancestral lands near the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
"The gunmen entered the home and shot them dead on the order of the spot," a senior police overseer in the own taking place capital, Guwahati, when knowledge of the breakdown told Reuters.
He was referring to an incident in which the militants shot dead three members of a intimates, including two women, even if wounding a baby. In a second hatred, eight people were killed by a society of guerrillas.
Candidates in India's general election, including enemy belly-runner Narendra Modi, have contributed to adjacent to-Bangladeshi feeling in Assam.
Modi, a Hindu nationalist, last week said immigrants from Bangladesh in a easy to make a buy of to own occurring should have their "bags packed" in deed he came to power. He accuses the disclose running of monster soft in report to immigration.
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