The World - News from Feb. 6, 1989
Sikh extremists fighting for a separate state in northern Punjab shot and killed two moderate Sikh leaders in an attack outside a school in Chandigarh, India, police said. The victims were Baldev Singh Khokhar, a leader of the moderate Akali Dal party in Punjab, and Rajinder Kaur, daughter of the late Akali Dal leader Tara Singh and a former Akali Dal legislator in Punjab. The three gunmen escaped. Moderate Sikhs favor political accommodation with New Delhi, rather than establishment of a separate state. At least 20 persons have died so far this month in Sikh-related violence in the Punjab, and 167 were killed in January.
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