Sikh Youth Leader Killed in Punjab
The youth leader of the main Sikh political party in Punjab was shot to death Saturday in an ambush by suspected Sikh extremists, police said.
Malkiat Singh, president of the youth wing of the Unified Akali Dal, was attacked as he drove toward Ludhiana, a central Punjab town that has been a focus of separatist violence.
Punjab Gov. Siddhartha Shankar Ray issued figures showing the 1988 death toll in a violent Sikh campaign for a separate homeland in Punjab was more than 50% higher than in 1987 and four times the 1986 toll.
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