Two dead as Punjab burns over Vienna Austria Gurudwara killing

Jalandhar: Two persons have been killed and many others injured on Monday as violence over the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Vienna spreads across Punjab and parts of Haryana.

One person was killed and four others were injured as Army jawans opened fire in Lambra village, 30 kms from Jalandhar. Another person was killed after the police opened fire on protesters at Jalandhar Cantonment railway station.

A mob set three bogies of the Kanyakumari-Jammu Tavi Express on fire as the train was passing through Phagwara in Punjab.

Some vehicles, too, have been torched and roads blocked by protestors in Phagwara.

Curfew has been imposed in Phagwara, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur following the violence in the area. Paramilitary forces have been sent to Phagwara to control violence.

Protestors also blocked traffic near Ambala and traffic on National Highway One has been disrupted.

All protests till now have been confined to the Doaba region of the Punjab where Dera Sachh Khand whose leader Sant Ram Nand was killed on Sunday night in a clash with a rival sect in Vienna, Austria.

In Patiala, a large group of people took to the streets chanting slogans. Chandigarh is also on high alert with important roads leading to the city have been blocked.

The authorities have already called in six companies of paramilitary forces and eight columns of the Army to control the situation.

Violence has also spilled out on national highways blocking roads to Nawanshahr, Hoshiarpur and at other places in the Doaba region.

Buses have also been damaged in Amritsar while in Nakodar, thousands came out on streets and pelted stones on the police.

Delhi-Lahore bus service has been stopped at Ludhiana as a precautionary measure in the wake of violence in Punjab.

The violence started when six people armed with knives and a hand gun attacked a preacher Sant Niranjan Dass of Dera Sachh Khand inside a gurudwara in Veinna.

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[kngsunny]

churiya ne gand piya hoya...

[lynne3s]

Ravidassia are not sikhs!!!! This is an attack led by extremist sikhs on a peaceful faith!!!!

[param3653]

jattian da maza bahut auda lain da kyoki main bahut chodiyan ....

[param3653]

@bandar420111 :teri maa behan chod te chamaran ne saliya potha sida liki janda hai..uthe tu ne gaya huna jithe sade bande ghum chuke hai slaiya je jiada garmi hai ta das mil landa han....

[nbaman90xx]

@kngsunny aaho veer penchodda ne valla gandh paya hoya

[TheWheelerOne1]

Y dey gotta burn da buses and trains for? The buses and trains didnt shoot or do anything to any1 lmao

[kngsunny]

mouchi machoad...

[sanjatt123]

ki chamarli di bund pati pyi a kutte sale