'Assam rebels kill 5' in Indian bus attack AT least five people have been killed when separatist militants attacked a bus in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, police say. Armed rebels stopped the bus in the Kokrajahar district late on Friday, forced eight people to get down and opened fire on them. Five people died at the scene, and three wounded people were taken to hospital later, police official AP Raut said. He said the attackers were from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, which has been fighting for a separate homeland for the Bodo tribe in Assam since 1996. The northeastern region has nearly 40 separatist, tribal or leftist groups active in five states.