FOUR people have been killed in a gun attack in India's restive northeast, pushing the week's death toll from ethnic violence to 10 as the situation remains tense.
Heavily armed gunmen late on Friday attacked the village of Joraibari in the western Kokrajhar district, 230 kilometres from the state of Assam's main city of Guwahati, authorities said.
"Three members of a family and another (distant) relative were shot dead by unidentified gunmen," Biswajit Daimary, an MP and leader of the Bodoland People's Party (BPF), told AFP.
A child was also critically injured in the shooting.
The government said there had been a "massive deployment of army, police and paramilitary troopers" to quell the fighting between indigenous Bodo tribes and Muslim settlers who have been embroiled for years in territorial disputes.
All the victims were Muslims.
"The situation is tense," Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters.
"The death toll in fresh clashes in the past week has gone up to 10 and we're trying our best to control the situation with a very firm hand."
Clashes between the Bodos and the Muslim settlers in July left at least 80 dead and displaced 450,000 people. Some 100,000 people remain in relief camps.
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