CHANDIGARH, India: Sikh freedom fighters in a maximum security Punjab prison strangled the warden to death in an attempted jailbreak, foiled by guards who opened fire, officials said.
At least five prisoners were wounded when the guards opened fire at Nabha Jail, about 200 kilometers from Chandigarh, an official spokesman said.
The prisoners overpowered the warden and strangled him with their turbans when he went to investigate sounds of digging from a cell, according to the Border Security Force, in charge of prison security.
The eight Sikhs had scaled the prison’s inner wall and were trying to climb the outer wall to freedom when they were noticed by guards who immediately opened fire, BSF, Inspector General G.S. Mander said.
Nabha prison has around 800 inmates, including 300 Sikh freedom fighters.
Meanwhile gunmen killed! six people and wounded five others as the nm w year opened on a bloody note in the troubled northern state of Punjab, the Press Trust of India reported.
Gurcharan Singh and his wife were shot dead at their village home at Daula in Faridkot District by two gunmen, the agency said.
Gunmen also shot and killed a Hindu employee of the government run Punjab State Electricity Board.
Three other people, including a Hindu merchant, were gunned down in similar attacks late Wednesday in Amritsar and Gurdaspur.
In further violence, gunmen shot and wounded a Hindu leader of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress (I) Party and his assistant in Ludhiana.
Hundreds of PSEB employees, both Hindus and Sikhs, went on strike in the district to protest against the attacks and demanded better security, PTI said.
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