Rebels kill 4 at Indian polling station

A suspected Naga rebel opened fire at a police station packed with voters on a tense election day Saturday in northeast India, killing four people before he was shot dead, police said.    

The gunman lined up with other voters outside but pulled out a revolver once he entered the building and began shooting indiscriminately, said Priyo Kumar Singh, police superintendent for Chandel district in the state of Manipur.         

Dozens of militant groups are active in northeast India, and the Manipur's state assembly elections were already tense with the threat of violence, after seven militant groups banded together against the governing Congress Party.    

Some 35,000 security personnel were deployed alongside armed police at more than 2,300 voting stations statewide.     

Police said the gunman was a suspected member of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, which has been fighting for decades for an independent homeland. About 2 million Nagas live in northeast India bordering Myanmar.       

AP