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March 30, 2012

Tension grips Gurdaspur, one killed, one hurt in police firing

Mar 29, 2012,
GURDASPUR: Tension gripped Gurdaspur town after one person died and another was critically injured reportedly in police firing.
According to reports a group of organisations of Gurdaspur had given a call for bandh after police had registered cases against members of another group during the call for Punjab bandh on Wednesday.
On Thursday, police intervened when one group tried to close the establishments of another group and they entered into an altercation. Trying to bring the situation under control, police opened firing when members of a group began pelting stones on it following which one person was killed and another seriously injured.
While downplaying the incident deputy commissioner Gurdaspur Mohinder Singh Kainth said, "One person has died but so far we don't know how he died or who brought him here." He, however, said police was probing the incident.

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