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3 killed in India terror attack

Masked terrorists hurl grenade at religious ceremony in Punjab; 15 hurt

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Three people were killed and several injured in a grenade attack at a prayer hall in Amritsar's Rajasansi village in Punjab yesterday, the police said.
Eyewitnesses say that two men on a motorcycle, their faces covered, threw a grenade at the Nirankari Bhawan, where a religious ceremony was on at the time, and fled.
The attack took place amid a high alert that six to seven Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists had entered the state and were "planning to move towards Delhi". While the police
are analysing the CCTV footage and looking for clues to identify the attackers, they don't rule out a terror angle.
"It (this incident) appears to have a terror angle. Because it is against a group (of people) and it is not against any individual. There is no reason to throw a hand grenade on a group of people, so we will take it as a terrorist act. Till proven otherwise, prima facie we will take it as that," Punjab Director General of Police Suresh Arora told news agency PTI.
The incident happened just eight kilometres from the Amritsar airport. Surinder Pal Singh Parmar, a senior
officer, said the 15 injured have been taken to the hospital and the bodies of the victims sent for post-mortem.
Every Sunday, hundreds of devotees gather here for prayers and kirtan. About 250 people were inside the hall when the attack took place. The two men also threatened devotees with a gun before flinging the explosive.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh has promised strongest possible action for this reprehensible act of violence. Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has announced Rs 5 lakh for the victims of the Amritsar blast and free treatment
for the injured.
"My condolences are with the families of those who lost their lives in this incident. It is an attempt to disturb peace in Punjab. All the security agencies are on high alert and coordinating with each other to main tain peace," said Sunil Jakhar, Punjab Congress chief.
Delhi Chief Minister called it as a "cowardly attack". "We strongly condemn it," he tweeted. Congress leadei Renuka Chowdhury said "this is a dangerous thing to happen".
A few days ago, four persons had snatched an SUV at gunpoint near Madhopur in Pathankot district. The men, who spoke in Punjabi, had booked the car from the Jammu taxi stand, police said.
Punjab, which was divided between India and Pakistan when they split after independence in 1947, has a history of sectarian and separatist violence.
In 1984, the Indian military launched an assault on the Golden Temple in Amritsar aimed at flushing out militants inside who were demanding an independent Sikh homeland, reported AFP.
The Sikh community was enraged by what it felt was desecration of the revered shrine. Later that year Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot deac by her Sikh bodyguards.
The assassination triggered antiSikh riots in which some 3,000 people were killed, many on the streets of New Delhi.