Punjab Moderate Slain by Separatist Gunmen
From Reuters
CHANDIGARH, India —
Sikh separatist gunmen Sunday ambushed a Punjab legislator and key supporter of embattled moderate Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala.
Police in Chandigarh said Amarjit Singh was shot as his car slowed to take a curve in his home village of Ghalewal in Ludhiana district. He died at the scene and his two assailants escaped on a motor scooter, they said.
Singh, 51, had supported Barnala in the chief minister’s struggle with the hard-line Sikh high priests for political control of the north Indian state.
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