Ethnic violence kills 37 in India

Ethnic violence killed 37 people in India's northeast yesterday as machete-wielding attackers ambushed a bus and tribal militants set fire to two villages of a rival group, officials said.

Militants from the Dimasa tribe, which has recently fought militia from the rival Karbi tribe, attacked a bus and used machetes to kill 22 people travelling on it, said D.D. Tripathi, the top administrator of Karbi Anglong district in Assam.

The assailants stopped the bus, dragged passengers, then lined them up on the road and hacked them, Tripathi said.