Suspected militants kill three Indian soldiers near Gauhati

No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Rangsali area, nearly 200 miles southeast from Gauhati. — Photo by AP GAUHATI, India: Separatist militants ambushed paramilitary soldiers on a patrol in India's insurgency-wracked northeast and fatally shot three of them, police said. Superintendent Anurag Agarwal said another two soldiers were wounded in Saturday’s attack that came despite tightened security ahead of next week’s legislature elections in Assam state. The attack occurred hours before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s arrival there to canvass support for his Congress party. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in Rangsali area, nearly 200 miles southeast from the state capital, Gauhati. It’s a stronghold of the Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers, one of more than 30 militant groups in the northeast fighting for independence or wide autonomy.