CHANDIGARH: At least 25 passengers of three buses were massacred near Barol in Ropar district of Punjab while 19 persons were killed elsewhere in the state since Nov 21.

According to sources, gunmen forced passengers of a to alight from the buses and later shot them dead.

Top police officials, including the director general of Punjab police, K P’S Gill have rushed to the spot.

In a separate incident, three militants and a bus passenger were killed near village Lehra in Ferozepore district Nov 22, K P S Gill said here.

The incident took place when the militants stopped a passenger bus and shot dead one passenger and injured his wife.

Police chased the assailants and killed three of them in an encounter near village Jagewal.

Ina shootout in Gobindnagar in Chandigarh, militants gunned down one person and injured another.

Security forces Nov 22, shot dead a militant during an encounter in Faridkot district. Four of his accomplices escaped. Five rackets and one rocket launcher were recovered from the spot.

While one person was killed in Lehra Bagga village of Batinda district Nov 21 another person was shot dead in Ludhiana district.

Militants shot dead a Congress I leader in Sangrur, a woman in Amritsar and a security personnel in Tarn Taran district.

Security forces recovered two bullet riddled bodies in Faridkot district.

While two militants were killed in an encounter in Batala district another was shot dead by security forces in Amritsar,

Bullet riddled bodies of two militants were found in Amritsar and Patala, and another militant was killed in Patala.

Fourteen persons, including six militants and one police personnel, were killed Nov 22.

Three militants shot dead two bus passengers in Ferozepur district but were chased and killed by police while trying to escape.

Three militants, including one under custody whom the police ‘were escorting for recovery of arms and ammunition, were killed in an encounter in Hoshiarpur.

A large number of arms and ammunitions were seized from the place of encounter.

The body of a police personnel, who was reported missing Nov 22, was found on the outskirts of Amritsar city Nov 23.

One militant was shot dead in an encounter with security forces in Ferozepur district, while one Pakistani intruder was shot dead by border security force in the Mamdot sector of IndoPak border in the same district.

Security forces arrested four militants after a brief encounter.

Article extracted from this publication >> November 30, 1990