YANGON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Eight people, including four women and a baby, were killed and six wounded in a rebel attack on a bus in military-ruled Myanmar's Karen state, newspapers reported on Thursday.

Rebels of the Karen National Union, which has been fighting for autonomy since 1949, set off a mine, then fired at the bus carrying members of a rival group on Tuesday, they said.

One member of the rival Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, which has signed a ceasefire with the junta, was killed and one was wounded, they said.

Four women, a baby and two other men were also killed, the newspapers said. (Reporting by Aung Hla Tun; editing by Michael Battye and Roger Crabb)

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