VANCOUVER: Balvinder Kaur Dosanjh is home from hospital but still carries the emotional and physical scars from a shotgun blast.

Two fingers are numb six shotgun pellets are embedded in an arm and she has trouble sleeping Dosanjh 23 said yesterday

She was hit by a blast March 27 as she opened her kitchen curtains to see who’d ring the doorbell.

“The window broke and I felt glass in my mouth and all over my body” she said “I fell back on the chesterfield and saw blood dripping down my arm.

“I screamed and that woke up my husband. He ran over and looked at my arm and said “You’ve been shot.” I had no energy and I was in pain

She said she saw a man lurking in her backyard moments before the shooting. Part of his face was covered by a scarf and he was wearing a baseball hat she said.

Police told her later they suspect another man was lurking behind the garage and likely fired the shot.

Neighbors told police that three men ran from her home and down an alley. The next day police recovered a shotgun near the house.

Dosanjh’s husband Ranjit is president of the International Sikh Youth Federation.

On March 14 former Vancouver Sikh Temple president Bikar Dhillon was shot from close range.

A group of kids playing backyard hockey have given Vancouver detectives their biggest clue in the shooting.

The boys told The Province they discovered a loaded sawed-off shotgun dumped in a shack a few houses down from the Boundary Road home of shooting victim Balvinder Dosanjh

And a few minutes after police recovered the gun area residents say two men walked past the shack and asked if police had taken a gun.

“The gun was sitting right there” said 11-year-old Sunny Korotana pointing to the empty shack. “We didn’t touch it.”

Bradley Snider 10 said he rushed off home to tell his mother about the gun found Thursday afternoon. His mother called the police.

GUWAHATI: Eleven persons were killed and 18 others injured some seriously in a collision between a passenger bus and oil lanker at Kadamtal in Nalbari district of lower Assam Saturday.

Police said nine persons were killed on the spot while two succumbed to their injuries on way to hospital.

The seriously injured were admitted to the Guwahati medical college hospital where the condition of some “was causing anxiety” police said.

Article extracted from this publication >> April 26, 1991