Khalistani activists are trying to lure impressionable Sikh youth for their cause, aided by Pakistan's ISI.
The nirankari congregation at Adliwal village outside Amritsar was at its peak given that it was a particularly pleasant Sunday morning on November 18. Then, just before noon, two young men, cotton scarves masking their faces, rode up on a motorcycle. One pointed a pistol at the two women volunteers on security duty at the gate of the satsang bhavan (prayer hall), while the second, who had been riding pillion, rushed inside and lobbed a grenade. The deafening explosion indoors killed three worshippers. Some 21 others sustained shrapnel injuries.
Police said Nirankari congregations, which have been off most terrorist hit lists since the late 1980s, was a deliberately selected ‘soft target’.
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