CHANDIGARH: Four people were killed in Punjab and a railway line was blown up in an attempt to derail a passenger train, police said on Thursday. The attempt was unsuccessful.
The police said gunmen shot dead three people in the Tanda area of Holhiarpur district on Wednesday night and a Sikh temple committee chief near the Sikh holy city of Amritsar on Thursday morning.
Others blew up the line near Khasa station in an attempt to derail a passenger train from
Delhi to Attari near the Pakistan border, they said.
The driver of an earlier train spotted the damaged track and stopped the second train from going off the tracks, they added.
It was the fourth attack on heavily crowded passenger trains in Punjab in the past two weeks, police said.
In the ongoing struggle for an independent Sikh nation in Punjab, at least 164 people have been killed in the state this month.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 3, 1989
