CHANDIGARH: Thirty two people, including 11 security men, were killed in Punjab since Saturday night raising the number of people killed in violence in the state to 72 in the past two days.
Five securitymen were killed when militants attacked a special police post in Amritsar district Nov 17.
Militants fired at a religious congregation in Hoshiarpur district Noy 17, killing six people, including Baba Balwant Singh, head of the Nanak Dukhbhanjan Satsangh Ghar.
Forty people, including 11 RSS workers, were killed in the state.
Baba Balwant Singh was delivering a religious discourse at Raulu colony when three militants riding a motorcycle started firing.
Besides the Baba, the others killed were Sunit Singh, Santokh Singh, Sant Ajit Singh and Nirmal Singh. A woman was also killed. Three were injured in the firing.
Militants gunned down five securitymen at a security post in village Harakalan in Amritsar district.
In a major incident in Haryana, Black Cats killed 11 people and injured a dozen others, six of them seriously at Dabwali in Sirsa district bordering Punjab.
The men fired indiscriminately on the people taking morning walk in Dabwali town killing 11 of them on the spot. The assailants managed to escape.
Eleven activists of the Hindu Rashtriya Swayam sewak Sangh (RSS) were killed early Nov 17 when they were fired upon indiscriminately at an RSS drill at Killian Wali village in Faridkot district on Haryana border.
Twenty nine people including 15 militants and six securitymen were killed in escalated violence elsewhere where Sikhs are fighting for an independent state Khalistan, Reports said.
Nearly 110 people have been killed in the trouble torn state in the last five days,
Four unidentified militants rained bullets from AK47 rifles out of a jeep at an RSS drill in the water works ground in Killian Wali killing 11 and injuring 12, six of them seriously, police said.
The injured have been admitted to hospitals.
Lt Gen of KCF Sarabjeet Singh was killed in an encounter with security forces in Basarke village in Batala police district.
A report from Amritsar Nov 17 said six militants and three securitymen were killed in an encounter with security forces at a farmhouse in village Gorenangal in Majitha district.
Eleven security personnel, including a CRPF company commander, were injured in the 12hour encounter.
Majitha police chief P S Gill said four AK47 rifles, one rifle, one mauser and large quantity of ammunition were recovered from the encounter site.
Two militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in the Sultanwind area in Amritsar district.
Militant Niranjan Singh and a constable were killed when militants ambushed a security forces party near village Sursingh in Tarn Taran district.
One person was shot dead near Dhariwal in Gurdaspur district Saturday afternoon. CHANDIGARH: Twelve people died overnight Nov 13 in Punjab, where Sikhs are fighting for an independent homeland Khalistan.
Three men were killed in a fierce shootout with security forces in Jeetwal village in Sangrur district Nov 13.
Thakar Singh was kidnaped from his home in Arrowal Vancheri village in Tarn Taran police district and shot dead Nov 13.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 23, 1990
