30 killed in northeast violence in India

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GAUHATI, Aug 12 (AP): Suspected rebels killed four Hindi-speaking migrant workers before dawn Sunday and three more bodies were found from an earlier killing in India's insurgency-wracked northeast, police said, bringing the death toll from a week of violence to 30.
"About six militants armed with assault rifles arrived in the village of Romgmong Ghat, barged into two houses and shot four people dead after dragging them out early Sunday," said L.R. Bishnoi, a senior police officer in Assam state.
Also, police carrying out searches near the site where gunmen fatally shot 11 migrant workers late Friday found three more bodies, bringing the toll to 14, Bishnoi said Sunday.
Militants often target migrants, who are resented as outsiders representing the federal government far away in New Delhi. The militants say New Delhi, 1,000 miles to the west, exploits the northeast's rich natural resources while doing little for the indigenous people, most of them ethnically closer to Burma and China than to the rest of India.
Late Friday, a group of gunmen armed with assault rifles entered a village inhabited by mostly Hindi-speaking migrants from other parts of India and opened fire, Bishnoi said.