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Killing of another six tribals raises death toll to 43 in India's northeast this week.
Police recovered six bodies overnight as fighting between rival ethnic groups raged in defiance of a curfew in India's remote northeast, a government official said Wednesday.
The latest killing of six Karbi tribespeople near Jirikindeng village in Assam state raised the overall death toll to 43 since Monday, said D. D. Tripathi, the top administrator of the state's Karbi Anglong district.
The fighting began Monday when Dimasa militiamen hacked 22 Karbi bus riders to death and torched two Karbi villages, killing at least 15 people, Tripathi said.
An indefinite 24-hour curfew was imposed on Karbi Anglong Monday night, but militiamen of the Karbi tribe, armed with machetes and guns, avenged the massacre on Tuesday by torching dozens of houses belonging to the Dimasa tribe.
Dimasa and Karbi militias have been battling the Indian government for self-rule, but have also clashed with each other in disputes over territory.
The densely forested Karbi Anglong district is nearly 350 kilometers (220 miles) southeast of Gauhati, Assam state's capital.
State authorities set up peace committees, comprising representatives of the two communities, to ease tensions in the area.
Fighting earlier this month between the two tribes killed at least 33 people and forced some 10,000 to flee their homes.
The army has been deployed in the riot-hit areas and orders to shoot issued to the troops, police and the paramilitary to stop the mayhem, Tripathi said.
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