Eight migrant workers killed - India

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New Delhi - Suspected separatist rebels on bicycles killed eight migrant workers with automatic weapons in the latest ethnic violence to break out in India's northeastern Assam state, the police chief said on Saturday.

Two others were critically wounded when suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Asom carried out the attack with AK-56 rifles in Mahakali village in the eastern district of Tinsukia, Khagen Sharma, the state's police chief, said.

The private NDTV and Aaj Tak news channels had earlier reported that 15 people had been killed, but Sharma could only confirm eight deaths.

The area is located some 600km east of Gauhati, the state capital.

All the victims were brick factory workers. Tinsukia is the area worst affected by weeklong ethnic tensions between ethnic Assamese and migrants from neighbouring Bihar state over access to government railroad jobs in Assam.

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1. This little war has been stewing for a long time.

I wonder why it's heating up now?
Just a piece of the general dissolution of empires going on?