February 12, 2008	Tuesday	Safar 04 ,1429

GUWAHATI, Feb 11: Four policemen were killed and two injured on Monday in an ambush by tribal separatists in India’s northeastern state of Assam, officials said.

Militants of a faction of the outlawed Dima Halam Daoga (DHD) attacked a patrol vehicle escorting power plant engineers near Umrangso, police official P. Kar said.

“The militants laid an ambush and opened indiscriminate fire, killing four personnel on the spot,” Kar said by telephone from Umrangso.

The militants, numbering between six and eight, fled.

“The police team could not retaliate with the militants attacking them from a vantage position,” Kar said.—AFP