CHANDIGARH, INDIA, Aug 12, Reuter: Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded on a bus just outside this north Indian city on Friday, police said.
They said 27 people were injured when the time bomb went off half an hour after the bus left Chandigarh, joint capital off Punjab and Haryana states.
Two of the victims were decapitated by the powerful blast which ripped through the roof of the bus, the press trust of India (PTI) said.
As police were investigating the blast, they said an unexploded bomb was found outside a popular Chandigarh Cinema. Police said they defused the time bomb.
In other north Indian violence, two Sikh militants were killed by police in separate incidents in Punjab’s Amritsar district, PTI said.
The news agency said two Sikh militants were killed by police in separate incidents in Punjab’s Amritsar district, PTI said.
The news agency said two Sikh priests were killed at a village temple in Uttar Pradesh state by Hindu fundamentalists.
More than 1,600 people have been killed this year in the ongoing violence.
BEWARE OF ANTI SIKH RUMOURS.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 19, 1988
