The World - News from March 27, 1986
Indian police in Punjab killed nine Sikhs and wounded 22 when militants firing guns and waving swords attacked the state’s chief minister, Surjit Singh Barnala, at a mass meeting. A Punjab government spokesman said Barnala had just started addressing about 100,000 people at a spring festival in the town of Anandpur Sahib when shots were fired from several directions, and more than 2,000 militants rushed the stage. Barnala and other leaders of his moderate Sikh political party, the Akali Dal, were rushed from the scene under police protection.
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