Chandigarh (PTI) Fifteen persons including six security personnel and seven militants were killed in the strife-torn northern Indian state of Punjab police said here.
Some Gunmen kidnapped one Piara Singh from his house in Misarpur village i in Batala district and later shot him dead.
Five BSF men were killed and two injured when a powerful bomb blew up their vehicle near Baherke village in Ludhiana district when the patrol was going to Jagraon from Manoke.
Five militants and a security man were killed in an encounter near Kathu village in Sangrur district. Two ak-47 rifles and a large quantity of ammunition were recovered.
An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter near Mauli Pattan village in Hoshiarpur district while a member of the Panchayat Samiti BantSingh was shot dead in Badha Unche village in Ludhiana district.
A CRPF jawan and a civilian were injured in an encounter in Jagdev Kalan village in Mayitha district while a home guard was injured when militants fired at a group on the Bajpur road in Ludhiana district.
Two scooter-born gunmen looted Rs. 4.5 lakh from the cashier of a private dairy at gun point in Sarabha Nagar area of Ludhiana town.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 12, 1992
