GUWAHATI, Oct 26: An ambush by separatist rebels in northeastern India left three soldiers and a civilian dead, while a series of clashes between rival militants also killed six rebels, officials said on Friday.

Rebels from the leading faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) ambushed a military convoy late on Thursday, police said, which also injured four people.

The Isak-Muivah rebels, who are fighting for an expanded Naga homeland, attacked the convoy in Arunachal Pradesh state, a senior police official said.

In three separate clashes in Nagaland set off when another group of suspected Isak-Muivah rebels stormed the camp of a rival faction, six militants were killed and several wounded, police official A. Sema said.—AFP