The World - News from June 13, 1989

In India, eight people were killed and 53 were injured when a time bomb believed to have been planted by Sikh militants exploded in the entrance hall to New Delhi’s main railroad station, police said. No group claimed responsibility for the blast, which came a week after authorities announced a citywide alert against possible terrorist strikes by Sikh extremists to mark the fifth anniversary of a bloody army raid on the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar on June 6, 1984. The capital’s police commissioner, V. N. Singh, said he suspects the Babbar Khalsa, one of the underground militias fighting for an independent Sikh nation in the northern state of Punjab.