NEW DELHI, October 27, SPA -- Communist rebels attacked a village festival in eastern India with gunfire and bombs Saturday, killing a top politician's son and 17 other people, police said. About 25 Maoist guerrillas attacked the cultural festivalin the remote state of Jharkhand, opening fireindiscriminately on the crowd, local police chief ArunKumar Singh told The Associated Press. Among the dead was Anuplal Marandi, the son of the state'sformer chief minister, Babulal Marandi, he said. Thepolitician was thought to be on the rebel's hit list afterleading a crackdown against them while in office, Singhsaid.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/493914