20 Killed in Bomb Attack in Northeast

Twenty people were killed in a bomb attack on border guards in India’s northeast hill region, where many tribal groups are campaigning for independent homelands. Ten of the dead were civilians, officials said. Police said the explosion took place at Raishyabari, 106 miles south of Agartala, the capital of Tripura state, as two truckloads of soldiers of the Border Security Force traveled along the frontier with Bangladesh. Civil authorities said they could not say who had carried out the attack, but army officials in Agartala said the National Liberation Front of Tripura was responsible.