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Suspected rebels kill two soldiers in India's northeast

Assam has seen decades of unrest among ethnic and separatist groups that resist rule from New Delhi

Indian troops killed two suspected rebels late Sunday, hours after the death of two soldiers in an ambush in the country's restive northeast, the defence ministry said. In the morning ambush the militants lobbed grenades at the vehicles used by the soldiers before detonating a small bomb in the Tinsukia district of Assam state. After a search the army "has been successful in neutralising two terrorists from the group which had attacked our troops in the morning..." the statement said. The ministry said the soldiers from the paramilitary Assam Rifles were escorting tourists returning from a festival in the neighbouring state of Arunachal Pradesh when their vehicles came under attack. Northeast India, linked to the rest of the country by a narrow land corridor, has seen decades of unrest among ethnic and separatist groups. The region is home to dozens of tribal groups and small guerrilla armies that resist rule from New Delhi. Many are fighting for independent homelands for their tribes and often compete against each other. More than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, have lost their lives to insurgency in Assam during the past two decades. In November heavily armed militants ambushed an army convoy in Assam, killing three soldiers and injuring four.