Eight killed in ethnic clashes in India

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BF6D3143-DD2B-44F9-8DED-9FAC354A8EEA.htm


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Clashes between local Assamese and Hindi-speaking settlers in India's troubled northeastern state of Assam claimed eight more lives, taking the toll in the past week to 14.


Federal troops were used to quell the violence as rampaging mobs burned the homes of hundreds of settlers from the neighbouring state of Bihar.

Four women and two children belonging to a family of a Hindi-speaking trader from Bihar were hacked to death and their home set alight in the town of Dibrugarh, about 250km from state capital Guwahati