JAKARTA, Indonesia?Black masked assailants armed with guns, grenades and daggers stormed a village in Indonesia’s religiously divided Maluku province Sunday, killing 14 Christians in a brutal pre-dawn attack that threatened a fragile peace pact.

The dozen men entered the mostly Christian village of Soya on the outskirts of Ambon, the provincial capital and the focus of three years of sectarian violence that killed 9,000 people.

The attackers went from house to house, shooting residents and setting fire to 30 homes and a Protestant church, witnesses said. They said six people were stabbed to death, including a 6-month old child, six died in fires and two were believed to have been shot.

The attack came two days after a militant Islamic group, Laskar Jihad, rejected a peace deal meant to end fighting between Muslims and Christians in Maluku, a region known as the Spice Islands during Dutch colonial rule.