CM decries ‘clear case of terror’ after blast

Even as Punjab Police maintained that some leads were being investigated, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh yesterday said the grenade attack on a religious congregation of the Nirankari sect was a clear case of terrorism and there was no religious connection to it.

“It is a clear case of terrorism. This has been carried out to create panic. There is no religious link to it,” Amarinder, who visited the grenade attack site at the Nirankari Satsang Bhawan in Adliwal village near Rajasansi, told the media.

Jobs for victims’ kin

Three people died and 20 others were injured when two assailants on a motorcycle threw a grenade at a Nirankari congregation, about 15 kilometres from Amritsar. All victims were devotees from nearby villages gathered for the weekly Sunday gathering.

The chief minister visited the injured at a hospital here and offered government jobs to next of the kin of the three people killed in Sunday’s grenade attack.

Amarinder had earlier on Monday announced a reward of Rs5 million (Dh256,311) to anyone giving information regarding the two assailants who carried out Sunday’s attack.