Tribal Guerrillas Kill 7 Policemen in East India Ambush
Tribal guerrillas trying to drive Bengali settlers from their region ambushed a police vehicle in eastern India’s Tripura state, killing seven men and wounding six others, a news agency said Saturday.
The deaths raised to 31 the number of people killed this year by guerrillas of the outlawed Tripura National Volunteers, official figures show.
The police were ambushed Friday as they were patrolling a road through dense jungle near Saikar in northern Tripura, about 1,050 miles east of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India reported.
The Tripura guerrillas, who killed 64 people in 1984, are fighting domination by Bengali Hindu settlers who started migrating to Tripura in 1947 from neighboring Bangladesh to escape religious persecution by the Muslim rulers of what was then East Pakistan. The influx of Bengalis reduced the tribesmen to a minority.
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