Banda Aceh – At least eight more people including two suspected separatist rebels have been killed in Indonesia's restive province of Aceh in recent days, the military and humanitarian workers said Monday.

Soldiers shot dead two suspected rebels in a clash at Bukit Hagu in North Aceh late Saturday evening, said an Aceh military spokesman, Major Zaenal Muttaqin. He said troops seized one AK-47 rifle and one homemade bomb.

A spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Sofyan Dawod, denied any rebel was killed and said the victims might have been civilians.

Muttaqin said gunmen shot dead a civilian at Kuala Simpang in East Aceh on Saturday. He said rebels torched a bus at Simpang Ulim in East Aceh on Sunday after ordering the passengers to get out but no one was hurt in that incident.

Local humanitarian activists said the bodies of three people, two of them with gunshot wounds, were found separately in North Aceh on Saturday and Sunday.

A civilian was killed by unidentified gunmen at Kuala Simpang on Saturday, a humanitarian worker said. The victim was separate from the one reported by the military in the same district. The body of a man was found beside the main highway at Kejuruan Muda in East Aceh, on Saturday, the humanitarian worker added.