BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian curfew after students shot

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian curfew after students shot: "Indian curfew after students shot
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta

Soldiers are helping to enforce a curfew in a strife-hit region of India's north-eastern Meghalaya state after police shot dead 12 protesters.

Police say they opened fire on Friday when students attacked them with stones but protesters say it was unprovoked.

The state's home minister has rejected opposition calls to resign.

Students from the Garo tribe have been staging protests against planned educational reforms that have created divisions with the Khasi tribe.

Troops have been carrying out high-profile marches in the Garo Hills region after being called out on Friday to help restore order amid an indefinite curfew.

'Brutal'"